The M49 bear escaped from a cage in Trentino: now the order is to shoot on sight. The order could cost the lives of numerous bears in the woods
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himTHEbear M49 escaped from the Casteller cage: a order of capture by the Autonomous Province of Trento.
The capture took place during the night, but at 5 this morning the bear would have managed to escape.
Following the escape an order has been issued to kill the bear on sight and his fate seems to be sealed.
It is unknown how the animal managed to escape from the cage, evading fences and electrified 7000-volt wires.
According to the information, the bear would have no radio collar, therefore it would no longer be identifiable and identifiable: the order to shoot on sight could also cost the lives of other bears. it would be a real one bear hunt.
According to the LAV, the bear has no responsibility: the inability to manage the bear is the responsibility of the Province of Trento, which failed in the management of the animal, held in an inadequate facility and from which the radio collar has been removed.
LAV asks the Public Prosecutor of Trento to capture the live animal and save it.
The Prefect Sandro Lombardi is also asked to suspend any execution order and the Minister of the Environment Sergio Costa to assume command of the operations, employing the Forestry Carabinieri.
The associations LAC, LIPU and WWF share the same opinion, according to which what happened would be the result of a mix of inexperience and exploitation:
The words of the president of the Fugatti Province are unacceptable: instead of making amends, he instrumentally attacks 'science' and wants to exploit what has happened to issue a culling order despite the Ministry's contrary opinion. As already underlined by the ISPRA opinion, on the basis of the criteria of the PACOBACE (Action Plan for the Conservation of the Brown Bear in the Central Alps) M49 is at most to be considered a problematic bear only because it has caused economic damage to productive activities. , favored by the failure to adopt adequate prevention tools, while its danger to people has yet to be demonstrated.
Therefore we distrust the Province from taking any action that could jeopardize the safety of M49, while we ask that an internal investigation be opened to clarify whether there has been any responsibility or negligence, favored by a politically heavy climate, while it is increasingly It is clear that the Casteller area is not suitable for hosting bears, guaranteeing their well-being and safety '- declared the associations in a press release.
Il Minister Costa lets his Facebook wall know that it is the formal notice for the province of Trento is ready:
The escape of M49 from the equipped area to house it cannot justify an intervention that causes its death.
President Fugatti legitimately forms his speech. No preliminary investigation so far drawn up by the offices, in collaboration with Ispra, has ever assessed the issue of killing the bear.
The inefficiencies shown in the capture, which do not see me and have never seen me agree, demand professionalism and maximum attention. Which has not been shown up to now. And now we talk about killing? Absurd and paradoxical.
In the meantime, I asked Ispra to immediately send a team of experts who, together with the technicians of the autonomous province of Trento, clarify the escape of M49 and then intervene with the necessary caution, without undermining the life of the animal Bear M49, ready the warning for the province of Trento.
The escape of M49 from the equipped area to house it cannot justify an intervention that causes its death.
President Fugatti legitimately forms his speech. No preliminary investigation so far drawn up by the offices, in collaboration with Ispra, has ever assessed the issue of killing the bear.
The inefficiencies shown in the capture, which do not see me and have never seen me agree, demand professionalism and maximum attention. Which has not been shown up to now. And now we talk about killing? Absurd and paradoxical.
Meanwhile, I asked Ispra to immediately send a team of experts who, together with the technicians of the autonomous province of Trento, clarify the escape of M49 and then intervene with the appropriate caution, without undermining the life of the animal - writes Costa.
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We sincerely hope that this story ends in the best way e may the bear's life be spared.
Tatiana Maselli
