A brown bear like those who live in the Pyrenees.
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Ducan Usher - Solent News - Sipa
Whistles and fog horns to scare the bears of the Pyrenees and protect the herds, so be it.
But shots from rubber bullets is no.
In a decision issued Thursday, the Council of State canceled the possibility of resorting to non-lethal shootings to frighten the plantigrades.
This novelty, called “reinforced scaring” had been authorized in the massif by ministerial decree in June 2019, and “on an experimental basis”.
Since then, a squad of scarers, duly trained, could come and support the shepherds and carry out these famous shots to ward off the bears.
Three bears killed in 2020
The highest administrative court considers that this process cannot be used "without further regulating the conditions for its implementation" and by not ensuring in particular that it does not affect "the maintenance of the populations concerned in their own right. natural range ”.
The Council of State believes that there is a risk of compromising "the improvement of the state of the species".
This legal victory of the pro bears comes at the time when another battle front opens in the Pyrenees.
Three bears were killed in 2020 in the Pyrenees: Cachou, poisoned in Aragon, Sarousse, shot by a Spanish hunter, and a mystery bear killed by bullet (s) in Ariège.
A dozen associations demand, in accordance with European agreements on the protection of the species, their rapid replacement.
Otherwise, they threaten to initiate new proceedings against the state.
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