The International Organisation for Animal Protection said the bear, dubbed KJ1, was around 22 years old and had three cubs who would struggle to survive on their own.
Local authorities in the northern Italian Alps killed a mother bear deemed to be “dangerous” on Tuesday after she injured a French tourist earlier in July, spurring protests by animal rights groups and criticism from a government minister.
The local forestry corps shot the bear, known as KJ1, after tracing her via her radio collar - used for tracking and monitoring wild animals - on the orders of Maurizio Fugatti, head of the provincial authority in Trento.“KJ1 was a dangerous specimen,” the local authority said, adding that the bear had come into contact with people seven times, including the incident in which a French jogger was hurt.
The minister said Italy was paying the price for having used the image of the bear to market the region to tourists, and that sterilisation was one way to deal with the issue. The International Organisation for Animal Protection said the bear was around 22 years old and had three cubs who would struggle to survive on their own.“Animals are sentient beings to be respected and looked after and not objects to be removed,” OIPA said in a statement, accusing Fugatti of pursuing an “anti-bear” strategy.
Earlier this year, Trento authorities said another mother bear, who killed a jogger in 2023, was going to be relocated to a sanctuary in Germany after culling orders for her were blocked by legal challenges from environmentalists.
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