Herders in France's Pyrenees mountains are rejoicing because they've squeezed a pledge from the country's president to not let any more bears loose in the wild.
The bears have cute names — Bubble, Feather, Snowflake and the like — and look so soft and huggable whenby remote cameras that study their habits. But to herders high in the Pyrenees mountains of southwestern France, the animals are stone-cold killers, ravaging flocks and undermining farming livelihoods.
“He promised that the reinsertions [of bears] are finished, that he won’t release any more,” said Jean-Pierre Pommies, who raises sheep and cows. Pommies wore his broad farmer’s beret to Tuesday’s meeting with“He was able to understand that it’s a big problem for us,” Pommies added. “We have reached the bottom, and the situation was ridiculous for Pyrenean herders.
Bear attacks on livestock have grown, too. Having long been largely stable, mostly between 100 and 200 attacks a year across the Pyrenees, including Spain, France and Andorra, they surged to close to 400 in 2018, according to theHerders who suffered included one of Pommies’ friends, whose flock was devastated in an attack last year, he said. The sheep took fright and plunged off a cliff together.“There were 256 piled up at the bottom,” he said.
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