On April 5, a 26-year-old jogger, Andrea Papi, was killed by a bear while running in Trentino, a mountainous region in northern Italy.
“A first in southwestern Europe for decades”,
according to Patrick Leyrissoux, bear referent of the Ferus association, which had worked for the reintroduction of the plantigrade in France in 1996.
As the summer pastures and the tourist season approach, the Italian drama rekindles psychosis, especially in Ariège where more than half of the 76 bears counted by the French Office for Biodiversity in 2022 live, all in the Pyrenees.
The fear is all the more acute as, on the night of April 15, a bear attack took place very close to a village in the Ariège valley of Couserans, in Ustou.
If it caused no casualties among the inhabitants, two ewes and a ram were killed.
On the spot, the disarray is great.
“The breeders form a big family.
When one of us is hit by a bear attack, it's like...
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