• In Asturias: life among bears

Nature Protection Agents, members of the Bear Patrol of the Government of Aragon and the Nature Protection Service (Seprona) of the Civil Guard have certified the death this Sunday of the bear Sarousse, because of several shots by a hunter , in the Bardaji valley, in the Ribagorza region (Huesca).

It was during a wild boar hunt in a preserve in which residents of the region participated.

The Civil Guard took a statement from the alleged perpetrator of the shots, who claimed to have acted in self-defense, the other assistants to the hunt and residents of the area.

According to the version of some neighbors, during the hunt the dogs moved the bear.

The hunters saw her and at first did not shoot her, but at one point she passed one of them, who tried to shout her away.

Failing to do so and noticing that he was turning towards him, he used the firearm.

He apparently fired three shots at close range.

It is the third specimen of this protected species that dies in 2020 in the Pyrenees by the hand of man.

In addition,

also yesterday Sunday in Palencia another hunter killed a bear, apparently accidentally.

The necropsy of the killed bear will be carried out by technicians of the Government of Aragon, predictably this Monday.

In turn,

Seprona has taken over the investigation.

Sarousse, born in Slovenia, was 21 years old and was reintroduced by France in 2006, but later she moved to the southern slope of the mountain range and settled in the Turbón massif, where she had her area of ​​activity.

The last attack attributed to this bear took place in September of this year in the municipality of Beranuy, one kilometer from Obarra and about 300 meters from a restaurant, where it destroyed two beehives.

A week earlier he had starred in a similar incident in Espés Alto, in the Huesca municipality of Laspaúles.

Six litters

The last official census pointed out that there were 52 bears in the Pyrenees

, a figure to which we must add the 12 cubs born since spring in six litters.

The official count of April 2020, carried out by the Cross-Border Monitoring Group made up of representatives of Catalonia, France, Andorra, Aragon, Navarra and the Arán Valley, together with the Oso Pardo Foundation, placed the population for the first time above the barrier of 50 copies.

Although this year the aforementioned group has not yet met, experts from both sides of the Pyrenees have already confirmed the appearance of at least six litters.

This is a record number, since in 2019 10 cubs of five females were born.

There are one, two and three offspring, with an average of two per litter, in which it is considered an exceptional season.

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