His GPS collar showed abnormal immobility for several days. The bear Cachou was found dead Thursday, on a steep slope of the town of Les, in the Val d'Aran, announce the authorities of the Spanish enclave on their website.
The death, unexplained for the moment, of this 5-year-old male bear, is already causing a strong reaction from the defenders of the plantigrades.
“Cachou was of particular importance, he was the only descendant of the Balou bear, released in Arbas (Haute-Garonne) in 2006. He carried a genetic heritage different from the rest of the population and constituted a hope for the future of the species in the Pyrenees ", recall this Friday the Pays de l'ours-Adet and Ferus associations. "Its disappearance without descendants (known) refers to the great fragility of the Pyrenean bear population, in particular due to an insufficient genetic diversity", they continue.
Autopsy in Barcelona
Cahou's remains have been transferred to the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where the wildlife ecopathology service must perform an autopsy.
The two associations ask the French government "to intervene with the Spanish and Catalan authorities so that the cause of Cachou's death is established and made public".
Renowned as voracious for its attacks on domestic animals, the Cachou bear was particularly watched by the Spaniards.
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