2023-04-17 06:56:00
They want to get involved together in the proceedings before the administrative court in Trento, which animal rights activists initiated with their appeal once morest the shooting of the “problem bear”. “The task of every mayor is to guarantee the safety of the citizens, but if decisions are taken at the supra-municipal level that prevent me from carrying out my task, then what is the point of continuing to be mayor,” said the head of the city council Municipality of Ruffré, Donato Seppi, according to a report in the daily newspaper “Alto Adige”.
The mayors are protesting once morest the suspension of the killing of the “problem bear” decided by an administrative court in Trento. The court initially suspended the order to shoot, which the governor of Trentino, Maurizio Fugatti, had issued last week, thus allowing the appeal lodged by animal welfare associations. Fugatti said people in the Val di Sole valley were concerned. He reaffirmed his firm intention that a total of three predators classified as problem bears would be shot down “if the state allows us to do so”.
26-year-old jogger Andrea Papi was attacked and killed by the bear on April 5 in the Trentino municipality of Caldes in Val di Sole. The animal is the sister of the “problem bear” Bruno, who was shot dead in Bavaria in 2006. The female bear was supposed to be killed as early as 2020, because the bear known under the code JJ4 attacked two people, a father and his son, on Mount Peller.
In Italy, the debate regarding the coexistence of bears and humans has intensified since the jogger’s death. Trentino wants to massively reduce the number of bears in the area. Around 1,000 brown bears currently live in Trentino.
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