The NGO Sea Shepherd has announced to offer a reward of 10 000 euros to identify the person responsible for the death of a brown bear shot and killed in the Ari
The NGO Sea Shepherd has announced to offer a reward of 10 000 euros to identify the person responsible for the death of a brown bear shot and killed in the Ariège.
the investigation into the death of a bear in the Pyrenees may take a new turn. The NGO Sea Shepherd has decided to break out the checkbook, announcing a reward of 10,000 euros for any information that can identify the person responsible for the death of the animal, whose species is in critical danger of extinction in France.
This sum is offered “to motivate those who have information to advance the investigation,” according to a press release. “The information will be forwarded to the authorities in charge of the case and the reward will be paid if the witness’s testimony led to the indictment of, or the culprit(s),” says Sea Shepherd.
The last she-bear of strain pyrenees, Cinnamon, was killed by a hunter in 2004″, recalls the NGO and its president Lamya Essemlali, asks for “exemplary sanctions and dissuasive”.
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The NGO has already offered 10 000 euros a month after the discovery in 2019 two seals beheaded in the Finistère, while the species is protected. Two sailors were summoned to appear before the justice.
“In parallel, Rewild (association of which Sea Shepherd is a co-founder) is going to file a complaint”, said the release. The minister of ecological Transition Elizabeth Terminal has indicated that the State would also complaint.
A “plan ” bear” buried
The bear is killed, a young male, is the second found dead in the Pyrenees this year, while the population only reaches fifty individuals, which does not ensure the survival of the species.
The growth of the population of ursine in the Pyrenees, after reintroductions began in 1991, feeding in years of tensions with herders who consider their presence to be incompatible with the pastoral activity.
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France had adopted a “plan of bears” for 2018-2028 for new releases of bear, but it has been buried by the government just a few months after its implementation, after the events of breeders.
By 2019, 1173 animals were killed by bears and 36 hives destroyed, according to figures contained in a public consultation launched recently for bird control measures of brown bears in the Pyrenees.
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Date Of Update: 13 June 2020, 09:58
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