A female bear that killed a mountaineer in the Italian Alps last year and sparked a fierce legal battle over her fate will be surrendered on a reserve in Germany, the authorities of the northern Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige announced today, quoted by Reuters and BTA.
After the bear, known as JJ4, carried out a fatal attack on a 26-year-old man in April 2023, authorities in Trentino-Alto Adige issued an order to capture and kill it. However, the death penalty was blocked as a result of legal action by environmentalists.
"JJ 4 will be transferred by autumn," the tourism and hunting councilor for the Trentino-Alto Adige region, Roberto Failoni, told the daily "Corriere del Trentino,", specifying that the bear would be given a second home in The alternative bear park "Vorbis" in the German province of Thuringia.
The decision was made after the animal protection organization LAV said it had obtained access to medical documents which showed that JJ4 and another bear were being held in captivity in the Trentino-Alto Adige region, " under conditions of high stress". Failloni denied that this was true.
The area around the city of Trento, which was repopulated with bears after 1999 under a European Union-funded program, has experienced several bear attacks in recent years, raising questions about how to achieve a successful coexistence between bears and humans.
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