Wild animals are not cute cuddly toys.
All the more so when the human being, their natural predator, no longer scares them, refraining from responding to their attacks.
Sheep breeders in the Alps and the Pyrenees are learning this at their expense.
The more the years go by, the more the bear and the wolf get closer to the sheepfolds and the dwellings, sometimes showing themselves to be threatening towards man.
They reappeared in France almost three decades ago.
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During the night of August 3 to 4, on the heights of Saint-Lary in the Estive de l'Estremaille, in Ariège, a bear pursued a shepherd after having attacked his sheep.
The worst did not happen because the summer pasture hut was near the attack.
“The herd was less than 50 meters from the hut.
Seeing the shepherd, the bear left the animals he was chasing and charged him
, says Franck Watts, Ariège breeder bear refer to the National Sheep Federation (FNO).
Neither the dogs nor the scare shots
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