2023-04-19 08:13:09
“It’s not the bear’s fault”… Controversy over the killing of a grizzly bear in Illinois
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In Italy, a young man recently died after being attacked by a brown bear.
However, it is said that there is a hot debate both inside and outside the country over whether to kill this brown bear.
As this bear is a ‘second offense’ with a history of harming people before, animal protection groups are protesting against the local authorities’ insistence that it must be removed this time.
The victim’s parents also opposed the killing, saying that it was neither the son’s fault nor the bear’s fault.
Reporter Lee Jun-sam reports.
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A large brown bear is sleeping in a cage.
On the 5th local time, a 17-year-old brown bear attacked and killed a 26-year-old man jogging in a forest near the city of Trento in northern Italy.
Trent city authorities lured the bear with fruit as bait and captured it.
Two of the bear’s three cubs were caught with it.
The bear, codenamed ‘JJ4’, has a record of attacking and injuring a father and son at the same time in a similar area in June 2020.
At the time, state authorities tried to kill the bear, but the court stopped it.
The Governor of Trentosh said at that time that if the brown bear had been removed, there would not have been another death, and that the bear would be removed if the court proved our case correct.
The court once again put the brakes on the killing, saying that the killing should be postponed until May 11 this time.
Animal rights groups have said they will protect the mother bear and her cubs by using all available legal means.
On Twitter, etc., the ‘lifesaving movement’ is spreading with the hashtag #JJ4.
The family of the young man who died is also against the shooting.
Rather, the victims plan to file a lawsuit against the authorities, claiming that the responsibility for neglecting the brown bear population is so great that it is uncontrollable.
Three bears released in Trentino in the early 2000s have recently increased to 100, according to local media.
This is Yonhap News TV Lee Jun-sam.
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