Relations between breeders and bears are often very tense in the Pyrenees. To add a little oil, the Ministers of the Ecological and Solidarity Transition and of Agriculture announced this Thursday an envelope of 500,000 additional euros.
The number of plantigrades in the massif now reaches 50 individuals, recalls the press release which underlines the need "to develop the support for breeders to allow the best possible cohabitation and implement an evolution in herd protection practices".
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- 20 Minutes Toulouse (@ 20minutestoul) April 23, 2020This roadmap entitled "pastoralism and bears" confirms the State's commitment "not to proceed with new introductions in the context of a favorable dynamic of the Ursine population", as well as an "increase in financial means compared to 2019 by more than 500,000 additional euros ”.
Equipped huts and reinforcement shepherds
This half-million euros will go "to the protection of herds, in particular for the equipment of huts in summer pastures, the reinforcement of support shepherds, as well as the implementation of pastoral diagnostics and vulnerability analyzes" , according to the press release.
In 2019, 1,173 animals were killed by bears and 36 hives destroyed, according to official figures. Under pressure from sheep farmers, the "bear plan" for 2018-2028, which provided for reintroductions, had been buried after a few months and the releases of two females, Sorita and Claverina, brought from Slovenia to Béarn in 2018 .
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