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The bears in Trentino, Italy, are under attack: the provincial cabinet has decided to have eight of them killed every year.
Last year three bears were apparently poisoned.
Update from January 19th, 5:05 p.m.:
On Friday, the cabinet of the autonomous province of Trentino approved the draft law on the shooting of eight bears per year.
This is reported by the broadcaster
RAI
.
Provincial President Maurizio Fugatti presented the draft for this at the end of last year.
The shooting quota of eight animals should be met this year and next year, then they want to consult with the national environmental institute ISPRA about how to proceed in order to agree on new quotas.
“We will thus stop the increase in sole walkers in order to ensure the safety of people, farmers and those who work in forestry,” commented Roberto Failoni, MP responsible for the issue of large carnivores.
He also assured that the bill was “the result of an agreement with the government” in Rome.
The law still has to be passed by parliament, but the government has the majority there.
Trento - The discussion about bears in the province of Trentino in northern Italy is flaring up again: Provincial President Maurizio Fugatti of the right-wing national Lega wants to push a law through the state parliament in Trento that provides for the “removal” of eight bears per year, initially for three Years.
According to stol.it,
the politician would ideally like
to have the law come into force before the approximately 150 bears in the Adamello Brenta Natural Park area north of Lake Garda wake up from hibernation.
Bear hunting in Italy: Six males and two females are said to die every year
Fugatti calls his proposed law “an important management tool that primarily ensures public safety, but also the protection of the mining industry.”
The politician's shooting rate is based on a study by the national environmental research institute ISPRA, which found that more than eight shootings per year - two females and six males - would endanger the bear population in the reserve.
The bears will soon wake up from hibernation.
The head of the Trent government, Maurizio Fugatti, then wants to hunt them down.
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It is still unclear whether Fugatti will get a majority for his shooting law: his deputy Francesca Gerosa from the post-fascist Fratelli d'Italia, which forms a coalition with the Lega, wants to consult with her group first.
The director of the Natural Park Adamello-Brenta, himself a member of the Fratelli d'Italia, expressed sympathy for Fugatti's plan.
A “numerical upper limit” of animals in the protected area has been an issue for a long time, he told the Trento daily
l'Adige
.
In the central Italian region of Abruzzo, however, the party of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had spoken out vehemently against the killing of bears.
Animal rights activists speak of a “crusade” against bears in Italy
The animal protection organization LAV calls the law “another crusade by the Trento state government” against the bears.
They will turn to the EU Commission.
The internationally active animal protection organization Oipa has already announced resistance.
It is questionable to what extent Fugatti's firing plan will hold up before the administrative courts.
Former Italian Environment Minister Sergio Costa has already called it “unconstitutional”.
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The brown bear is particularly and strictly protected due to its classification in the EU's Fauna-Flora-Habitat Directive.
So far, administrative courts have rejected Fugatti's killing of bears as disproportionate.
The bear Gaia, who is said to have killed a jogger in the spring last year, was still spared from lethal injection.
She had obviously wanted to defend the young ones she had with her.
Ex-government deputy: Three bears have already been poisoned
The farmers and hunters in the province are apparently resorting to vigilante justice.
Last year a total of seven bear carcasses were found in Trentino.
In the TV program
Mandami Raitre,
the former vice president of the province, Mario Tonina, surprised with the statement: “The last three bears found dead did not die a natural death.
People can't take it anymore and are looking for answers themselves." The forestry department of the state of Trentino later made it clear that there was still no final confirmation that the bears that recently died in Trentino had been poisoned.
One of the dead bears found in the fall near Bresimo in Trentino was the bear with the abbreviation MJ5, called "Boss", a half-brother of Bruno, who was shot in Bavaria in 2006.
How “Boss” died is still unclear.
However, Fugatti had put him on the hit list with other problem bears.
MJ5 attacked and injured a dog walker in the spring.
The bear may have felt provoked by the dog.
Fugatti also cleared MJ5 for firing, but the Trent Administrative Court overturned the order.