The Marsican brown bear, nicknamed for her favourite food and known for strolling through towns, was shot by a man in central Italy. The slaying has sparked outrage among the country’s environment minister and animal rights groups.
The shooting death of an endangered brown bear near an Italian national park has left her two young cubs motherless and sparked outrage across the country on Friday.
Prosecutors were considering a possible charge of animal killing, and as part of the investigation police took the rifle, which was legally owned by the 56-year-old man, the LaPresse news agency said. “Our commitment is aimed also at the protection of the bear’s cubs, doing everything possible so that they can remain free.”The head of World Wildlife Fund’s Italy office, Luciano Di Tizio, called the bear’s slaying a “very grave, unjustifiable crime of nature” and the result of a “constant campaign against wildlife”.
Interactions between bears and people have taken on political connotations in Italy and landed in the courts. Earlier this year, an administrative court’s ruling spared, for now, the life of a brown bear that fatally attacked a runner on a mountain trail in Italy’s Alpine region.
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