These are crucial days for the survival of the Trentino M13 bear, which risks being killed because it is guilty of having approached the inhabited areas of Valposchiavo too often, within the Swiss canton of Grisons, in an attempt to survive in its natural habitat, such as has always done so until now.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
These are crucial days for the survival of the Trentino bear M13, which risks being shot down because it is guilty of having approached the inhabited areas of Valposchiavo too often, within the Swiss canton of Grisons, in an attempt to survive in its natural habitat, as it has always done until now.
Among the "crimes" broken by this mischievous, who has now become a media star, the Swiss farmers include thefts from local farms, including ducks, chickens and potatoes. This is why the "Graubünden" got angry and now M13 is in danger of life. From the net, however, comes a lot of support for the nice furball. Through an alter ego that manages a facebook page entirely dedicated to him, a collection of signatures is being promoted, organized by WWF Piedmont and the Valle d'Aosta region with the aim of saving the skin of the bear and change the concept of brown bear management in Switzerland, which includes a too rigid regulation that contemplates among the solutions to the problem only the culling of specimens.
“In Switzerland - explain the promoters - a bear approached a farmhouse and raided… potatoes. The bear is shy, he does not approach men, he has not harmed anyone, he approached this farmhouse precisely because it was uninhabited. But in Switzerland the rules to regulate relations between humans and animals only provide that in cases of disturbance of human activity by wild animals, they must be slaughtered. We disagree, this bear must be saved (a bear raiding potatoes expresses perfectly normal behavior) and the Swiss standard needs to be revised and improved. We therefore invite all members and sympathizers to sign the petition and advertise it to their acquaintances ".
Meanwhile, the other front also takes the field on the net, that of the opponents of M13, which continues to report serious dangers to humans, because M13 is not afraid of them now. Because he even went so far as to enter a house. It matters little if, as Joanna Schoonenberger, head of the Ursina project, explains, he entered that secondary residence precisely because the humans were not there.
Of course, the gypsy bear, as the local media call it, he should still be unaccustomed to positive relationships with humans, solution that represents the only way to save his life (Schoonenberger explains it here). But before getting directly to the killing of an aan animal absolutely not ferocious, but only wild, it passes us. The behavior of M13, in fact, is absolutely normal for a carnivorous plantigrade which, especially in autumn, spends most of its time feeding to be ready for the hibernation period. The problem is not the laws of nature, but human ones, "written to be improved, within their limits", to use the same words with which the appeal of the petition launched on the Activism website, signed by over 2.700 to date, ends. users.
To sign the petition click here
Roberta Ragni
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