The next bear snapshot: Mayor urges calm
Created: 05/04/2022Updated: 05/04/2022 8:54 PM
By: Silke Reinbold-Jandretzki
Garmisch-Patenkirchen: Next snapshot of bear © private
In the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, another bear was photographed by a wildlife camera.
Local politicians and conservationists urge calm.
Ohlstadt – The first shot was still a little blurry, this time the brown bear made a better impression.
A few days after a wildlife camera photographed a bear near Mittenwald, the same animal was probably photographed again.
This time on a slope in the municipality of Ohlstadt - around 30 kilometers from the place where the first picture was taken.
The camera was triggered shortly before 4 a.m. on Monday night.
And the pictures show an animal rolling on the ground and sniffing a branch.
You can find more current news from the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen at Merkur.de/Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
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A representative of the State Office for the Environment was already in the area of the first sighting near Mittenwald yesterday to start looking for genetic material such as fur or faeces.
This would make it possible to determine which population the animal came from and whether it had already become conspicuous in the past.
The district office and the municipality of Ohlstadt have meanwhile informed the local pasture cooperative about the bear detection.
Mayor Christian Scheuerer urges calm.
The animal behaved “perfectly from our point of view”.
There is no reason for excitement - and certainly not for any kind of "bear tourism" in the region.
The spot where the photo was taken is about 500 meters from the residential development.
However, Scheuerer assumes that the bear was only passing through.
The Federation of Nature Conservation also called for "objectivity in dealing with the bear" yesterday.
"We expect that the bear will really be welcomed this time and not, like Bruno 2006, quickly become a political issue and be shot down," emphasized BN chairman Richard Mergner.
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