The technicians of the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park released Morena into the wild, a puppy abandoned by his mother last May
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
Back to freedom, in the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, the Morena bear, a puppy rebounded in the news because it was last May abandoned by his mother in the territory of Villavallelonga and then saved from certain death thanks to the intervention of the park rangers.
It was then that it was decided to try everything out, also and above all because it is a breeding female of a species, that of the Marsicano Bear, at high risk of extinction (today there are about 50 individuals).
The Park and the Salviamo l'Orso Association then experimented with a program, never followed before, for gradually reintroduce that puppy to the wild, "A difficult and complicated undertaking never attempted before with a specimen of Marsican brown bear, the rarest brown bear (Ursus Arctos) that lives on the face of the planet", explain from the Salviamo l'Orso Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to conservation of the Marsicano Brown Bear.
Thus, exactly as it was planned by the National Park agency, these days the staff of the scientific and veterinary service has once again brought back to its natural habitat the sweet little bear Morena. After having subjected it to a scrupulous health check, according to the release guidelines drawn up in collaboration with a pool of national and international experts and with the support of the ISPRA (Institute for Environmental Protection and Research) and the American expert, Dr. Beecham, Morena has returned to her woods.
Already since the last snowfall at the end of November, Morena, who was now ten months old and weighed 40 kilos, had begun to eat less and less and to hide in the den even for a whole day, a sign that his metabolism was slowing to prepare for hibernation. At that moment it was decided to reintroduce it into nature, also taking into consideration the other variables involved, including climatic conditions and release sites, far from inhabited centers and anthropogenic activities.
“With the same assumption with which we took Morena at the end of last May, that is to give a chance of survival to a female Marsican brown bear, we have now returned it to nature”, said the director of the Park Dario Febbo.
From now on Morena will come monitored thanks to a satellite radio collar, so as to have real-time information on its activities. Come on Morena, we are all with you!
Germana Carillo
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