Bear spotted in the center of Malé, Val di Sole, during the night and immediately defined as “a danger” by those who filmed the scene because the animal was outside its habitat. But is it really a danger? What will happen to the plantigrade now? Prevention tools are urgently needed
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He moves through the town in the middle of the night, looking for a familiar path. A (another) bear has been reported in the territory of the Province of Trento. We are in Malé this time, where the plantigrade was spotted around 02:00.
The scene was recorded by provincial councilor Claudio Cia, who lashed out at the animal, calling it a “danger, a lethal power outside its habitat”
The video was released with the hashtag #AttentionBear #Danger and addressed to those that the councilor calls “living room animal rights activists”, who remind them that “under its soft fur and cute face, the bear remains a ferocious predator”, verbatim words.
In the evening, a village demonstration was held in Malé with stalls, citizens and many children celebrating the end of school.
However, no close encounter with the bear was reported and no dangerous incidents occurred, fortunately. That bear didn’t seem so ferocious at all. The wild animal seemed to have rather lost its orientation, pushing into the municipality of Val di Sole.
The response from the animal rights organizations was not long in coming, reiterating how the lack of preventive measures does not guarantee the safety of residents and wild animals, but rather contributes to generating a climate of fear and hatred towards bears.
Animal rights defenders also remember that the CIA councilor was among those who supported the shameful Trentino law for the culling of up to 8 dangerous bears a year.
But was this bear really a danger? Does it take so little to be persecuted as a bear and therefore, as Claudio Cia writes, a ferocious predator? What will happen to the animal now?
Mitigating the human-wildlife conflict and working towards coexistence means implementing effective tools, educating the population and avoiding disturbing wild animals. In Abruzzo, to protect bears during the breeding season, a path was recently closed.
In Trentino we continually talk about abatement, but we repeat it again and again: abatement cannot be the only solution evaluated. The measures recommended by experts are of a very different type, but we already know this.
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Source: Claudio Cia/Facebook
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