The French Office for Biodiversity (OFB) counted 331 bear attacks on livestock in 2022, compared to 333 the previous year. Pro-bear associations had taken legal action to annul texts authorizing "on an experimental basis" the prefects to grant derogations for "simple scaring using sound, olfactory and luminous means" The minister began his trip to Ariège with the visit of the sheepfold of Jean-Pierre Mirouze, who lost 260 ewes.