An 81 -year -old hunter in France was fined and delivered a detention sentence of 4 months for killing an extinction bear within the mountains of the Pyrenees.
The man stated he had no “different possibility” however open fireplace on the brown bear when he attacked him throughout a wild boar hunt in 2021.
Also different fifteen hunters have been fined and so they should pay collectively greater than € 60,000 (£ 51,000) in harm to the environmental associations that had filed a civil trigger in opposition to them.
The 150 kg feminine bear, nicknamed Caramelles, has since been preserved by a taxidermist and is uncovered to Tolosa Natural History Museum.
The Criminal Court of Foix felt that the group was chasing the wild boar within the Pyrenees, the mountain vary that separates southern France and Spain, when two bear puppies emerged.
Shortly afterwards the mom appeared, loading the person and dragging him a number of meters, earlier than capturing and killing the animal.
“He grabbed my left thigh, I panicked and shot.
“I recharged my rifle and shot.”
Filming passed off within the Mont Valier Nature Reserve close to the village of Seix, Ariège. Public ministries stated they should not have been there within the first place, as a result of they have been 1,300 ft (396 m) exterior a licensed looking space.
But the protection lawyer for 14 of the hunters, Fanny Campane, criticized “the shortage of indicators that indicated that the hunt was prohibited”.
The shooter was fined of € 750, his rifle was confiscated and his looking license was revoked.
In a declaration, the Association of the Orso-Conervazione Pay of the O O ours stated that the decision “appears justified”.
“All the hunters have been judged responsible, which is an important factor for us”, the president of the affiliation was talked about, Sabine Matraire, as in Le Monde.
“We hope that this sentence shall be adopted by a consciousness between the looking group,” he added.
The populations of brown bears noticed a powerful decline of the Pyrenees, with solely about 70 remained in 1954, According to the tourist council of the Region.
But the numbers have slowly climbed for the reason that 90s when three bears have been introduced by Slovenia as a part of a reintroduction program.
In 2024, The French office for biodiversity estimated that the mountain vary now hosts about 96 bears.
