• The complex Pyrenean reconquest of the brown bear

Goiat, the young bear from Slovenia reintroduced by the Generalitat in 2016 in the Pyrenees mountain range, is responsible for 40% of all attacks on farm animals carried out in the last two years by plantigrades and continues to add controversies.

Neither the numerous beats and demonstrations starring Catalan, Aragonese and French farmers and ranchers, nor the different measures implemented by the Department of Territori in recent years - among them the placement of a GPS collar to monitor their movements, the lifting of Electrified fences, or the use of pyro-technology to scare it away from populated areas - have so far, as recognized by the Catalan government, put a stop to the "anomalous predatory intensity" of the problematic animal.

His voracious appetite - since waking up from his last period of hibernation Goiat has devoured a sheep, a lamb, a goat and a foal in the Catalan part of the Pyrenees, and two calves in the Aragonese - once again lit the spirits of farmers and farmers.

This time, of the agrarian organizations Joves agricultors i Ramaders de Catalunya (JARC) and Unión de Agricultores y Ganaderos de Aragón (UAGA-COAG), have joined previous protests by entities such as Unió de Pagesos or the Associació de Ramaders del Pallars Sobirà and they demand from Territori the "definitive withdrawal of this predatory bear from the Catalan and Aragonese Pyrenees in the face of the innumerable damages that it has caused in the cattle hut", in addition to "compensation to the cattlemen since the Generalitat is responsible for the release of both Goiat as of other copies ».

However, and beyond the rifirrafes between the animal, ranchers and farmers, Goiat is also a constant generator of political disputes. Without going any further, the one starring in 2018 by the Catalan and French governments - after the second did not authorize the Generalitat to enter its territory to change the battery of the GPS collar that identifies the young bear of the rest of the plantigrades; or the most recent, after the Aragon government asked the Generalitat last week to take charge of the exemplary "conflicting" and "predator."

"Currently, this executive does not participate or collaborate in the bear reintroduction program, so he considers that it is the Catalan authorities who must take the appropriate measures to solve the problem as urgently as possible," said the Aragonese government. sent to the Minister of Territori i Sostenibilitat, Damià Calvet, after Goiat starred in various attacks against cattle and bee hives in the Pyrenees.

Calvet responded through another letter in which he reminded the neighboring government that the introduction of plantigrades in the Pyrenees was a project led by France in 1996 that was supported by the European Commission, as well as "with the agreement of Spain and of all the affected Pyrenean administrations », including those of Aragon, and that therefore Goiat's responsibility« is common and shared by our two governments ».

An opinion that has also been recently backed by numerous environmental groups, who have reminded the Aragon government that it is bound by both state and regional European laws, to conserve biodiversity, especially that of endangered species such as the bear. Laws thanks to which, the population of bears in the Pyrenean massif has begun to have about 40 individuals, having been about to become extinct in the 80s by the persecution of man.

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