It was a moment of carefree play that belied their species’ uncertain future. WATCH: Alessandro, 12, was hiking with his family in northern Italy when a brown bear started following him. Their dwindling numbers have only compounded their peril, with a high level inbreeding often resulting in depression and disease.

“Photo,” he whispers hoarsely to his companion, Loris Calliari, who assures him he’s taking one. “Take a look,” Umberto says, as he hits ‘play’ on the little screen inside the box. Brown bear sounds including huffing, jaw popping and growling. Recently, Umberto tells me, he watched through binoculars as two cubs rolled down a hill alongside their mother. By Simon Osborne, March 2020. “Him” is the sizable brown bear shadowing the boy as he makes his descent during a family hike. On the positive side, a more recent census identified six reproductive females in the Apennine central range of Marsican bear with an estimate of ten pups produced during 2016. This means planting swathes of beech trees on deforested mountains; their nuts would also sustain wild boars, voles and bird species, boosting the food chain. The Marsican bear appears to have changed relatively quickly, at least on the sorts of geological timescales over which evolution usually occurs. Red deer, wild boar, wolves and wild horses can be found in parts of the largely-deserted countryside. Public opinion in Italy over the summer divided into two camps – tens of thousands of animal ­lovers, activists, hikers and others who petitioned on social media and staged street protests demanding that the bear, named Daniza, should not be captured or killed for defending her young. The National Parks Service also recommends staying calm and speaking in low tones to avoid spooking the bear. The Marsican (left) has a powerful jaw for crushing nuts.

Giant ‘vampire’ anchovies hunted other fish in prehistoric times. “A little less,” Calliari says. In 2011, when conservationists here spotted only one mother with cubs, extinction loomed like a storm cloud. They are solitary animals, they do not live in a pack, they are shy and mainly nocturnal. The Marsican brown bear (also known as the Apennine brown), a subspecies of the more numerous Eurasian brown bear, is critically endangered. In the middle of October, a few weeks before hibernation begins, the leaves of the centuries-old beech trees that cover the high valley are turning a glorious gold, which the autumn sun only burnishes further.

But, following the shooting of the Pettorano sul Gizio, bear in the Apennines at the end of ­September, a pioneering organisation that mixes biodiversity, conservation, wildlife tourism and project management has tried to come to the ­rescue, finding solutions that can benefit both animals and humans.

The wind that had carried the rain was approaching from the trees, taking their human scent with it.

Voir les partenaires de The Conversation France. Alessandro turns around just as the bear pushes its way through some bushes, but the boy never stops moving.

The concept they have come up with is called rewilding, and the organisation, Rewilding Europe, is determined to help preserve and ­nurture endangered wildlife and natural areas across some of the more remote and beautiful parts of Europe. There are hundreds of different species of plants, a conservationist's and nature lover's dream, but the wildlife star of the Central Apennines is Ursus arctos marsicanus, the bear named after one particular Apennine peak, Monte Marsicano. Eyewitness footage captures a 12-year-old boy keeping remarkably calm as he retreats from a Marsican brown bear during a family hike in Italy’s Brenta Dolomites. They come in the spring to leave scent, as part of the mating process, or before hibernation to mark territory.

Calliari posted the video online after the incident.

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He, too, says that the bear Alessandro ran into had not been behaving aggressively and that it was “merely curious about a child with something in his hand”. There are no more than 60 let across a patchwork of national and regional parks, villages and farmland, with most found in the Abruzzo National Park, in central Italy. Natural Order: Rewilding Apennines project manager, Alberto Zocchi says that human emigration and the problems of rural economies in Europe are perfect conditions for rewilding. But organised efforts have only recently gathered pace.In 2012, newly established Abruzzo-based non-profit association Salviamo L’Orso (‘save the bear’) began to focus minds and funds on a series of initiatives aimed at protecting the bear as an umbrella species, which is a group with large area requirements whose conservation is of particular benefit to the whole ecosystem.

Within this context, what is the future of the unique isolated Apennine bear? 1901), L’expertise universitaire, l’exigence journalistique. The occasional golden eagle and griffon vulture soar in the vast skies above it. These are brown bears (Ursus arctos), the most common and widespread of the eight bear species. The Carnivorous Habits of Humans Are Endangering the Planet, Eight-Man Football: The Biggest, And Only, Game in Town, A Former Mercenary Proposes a Pentagon Makeover, The Reality TV Show That Interrogates ISIS Prisoners on Camera, Life in a Jordanian Refugee Camp Inspires Soap Opera, Axis of Easel: Churchill and Hitler's Painting Duel, Planet Reboot: Fighting Climate Change With Geoengineering, 'The Imitation Game' Sparks a New Wave of Code-Breakers, Vladimir Was Here: Finding 'Winners' in the War in Ukraine, After Scotland, Yorkshire Fights for Its Independence. A female brown bear, nursing two cubs, attacked a 38-year-old cable car operator, out foraging for mushrooms in the mountainous Trentino region near the Alps. This isn’t the only example of a brown bear subspecies adapting its jaw to its environment – in the Tibetan plateau, another isolated population, the Isabelline bear, has evolved unique slender mandibles in order to catch burrowing rodents.

Umberto and his business partner and fellow guide, Valeria Roselli, who joins us for the weekend, have long fought to increase awareness and protection. Initiatives promoted by Rewilding Europe and local groups are providing more pragmatic solutions to prevent increasing human-bear conflict – in 2007 three Marsican bears died due to eating poisoned carcasses.

In high meadows, I see more evidence of the animals: paw prints in the mud at a watering hole. Alessandro says in the TV interview that he loves nature and animals and that he thinks the bear “behaved well” toward him. Bear Attack: The endangered Marsican brown bear, above, has divided opinion in Italy between animal lovers and right-wing politicians. Marsican brown bear (via Animalia Life) Accepted scientific name: Ursus arctos marsicanus (Altobello, 1921) (Note that not all authorities recognise this as a subspecies.)

In 2019, TENT began offering trips to some of the projects it supports as part of a broader mission to raise awareness, as well as money. A 12-year-old boy just showed that he might be the coolest kid in Italy after he ever-so-slowly walked away from a big, hulking brown bear in a tense encounter caught on video. It could expand its range though, as there is suitable habitat throughout the Apennines. The animal was a Marsican brown bear, which can weigh up to 220 kilograms (485 pounds). "We are working to involve livestock owners, hunters and young ­people in a number of activities to provide ­lodging opportunities, services and better protection of the areas," says Alberto Zocchi.

Rewilding ­Apennines has just donated the first of two dozen sets of electric fences to local farmers, to help them protect their orchards, gardens, pens and sheds from wildlife, and to prevent further bear intrusions and subsequent human retaliation. How to spend your last hours before lockdown, Róisín Ingle: After seven months of this headwreck, what needs to be done feels harder than ever, Support bubbles: Everything you need to know, ‘Waiting for your children to die, knowing that it can happen at any time, is crushing’, 75 reasons to be cheerful – by Mary McAleese, Chris de Burgh, Sinéad O’Connor and more, ‘I am finding the balance of life is getting more and more complicated’, Railway cottage with amphitheatre garden in Ballsbridge for €745k, Dr Muiris Houston: ‘For me, the most shocking Covid-19 statistic of all is this…’, Frequently asked questions about your digital subscription, Specially selected and available only to our subscribers, Exclusive offers, discounts and invitations, Explore the features of your subscription, Carefully curated selections of Irish Times writing, Sign up to get the stories you want delivered to your inbox, An exact digital replica of the printed paper, Walk for the Weekend: Templecronan Loop, Co Clare, The great unlocking: Top holiday destinations welcome back tourists, Rosita Boland: The ache for distant places remains, ‘It’s not a nice atmosphere’: Dead calm in Dublin Airport.

Carlo Meloro works for Liverpool John Moores University. “Stop! Along with furious farmers, they've said that attacks on livestock and even humans will only increase if bears are allowed to roam free in the wild. Another subspecies of brown bears are Marsican brown bear.

At the point in relatively recent history when bears in the Apennines were no longer able to breed with the wider brown bear population, they began to evolve their unique jaws. But even then he manages to keep his grip on a bag of pine buds he has been gathering. Germano Palozzi, one of 35 rangers in Abruzzo, is looking for tracks and evidence of illegal hunting. Appearance. The brown bear is sometimes referred to as the bruin, from Middle English. In fact, Alessandro did everything he was supposed to do.

Opponents of the EU-funded Life Ursus scheme in Trentino, which has reintroduced brown bears into the region for the past 15 years, include politicians of the right-wing Northern League party. Alessandro Franzoi walks away from a bear he encountered in the mountains of northern Italy on May 24, 2020.

Instead, ancient DNA points to the existence of one massive European population of brown bears with high genetic flow from country to country. The boy, who was ahead of his family, turned around … In the 1980s, his family invested in commercial forestry to fuel its furniture empire. I notice a bear tattoo peeking out from the short sleeve of his khaki uniform. Near the small ­village of Gioia dei Marsi, just outside the boundary of the Abruzzo National Park, is the best bear-watching spot in Italy. "We want to show that there is also a business case for the wild," says Staffan Widstrand, a 55-year-old Swedish conservationist, wildlife photographer and language enthusiast, who is the marketing director for Rewilding Europe, founded in 2011 and based in Holland. Brown bear size is highly variable, depending both on subspecies and food availability. The public reaction in Italy over killings of the Marsican brown bear has been one of intensity and passion.

"These are just the right conditions to turn a problem into an opportunity. Please read our Commenting Policy first. Skull.

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It was a moment of carefree play that belied their species’ uncertain future. WATCH: Alessandro, 12, was hiking with his family in northern Italy when a brown bear started following him. Their dwindling numbers have only compounded their peril, with a high level inbreeding often resulting in depression and disease.

“Photo,” he whispers hoarsely to his companion, Loris Calliari, who assures him he’s taking one. “Take a look,” Umberto says, as he hits ‘play’ on the little screen inside the box. Brown bear sounds including huffing, jaw popping and growling. Recently, Umberto tells me, he watched through binoculars as two cubs rolled down a hill alongside their mother. By Simon Osborne, March 2020. “Him” is the sizable brown bear shadowing the boy as he makes his descent during a family hike. On the positive side, a more recent census identified six reproductive females in the Apennine central range of Marsican bear with an estimate of ten pups produced during 2016. This means planting swathes of beech trees on deforested mountains; their nuts would also sustain wild boars, voles and bird species, boosting the food chain. The Marsican bear appears to have changed relatively quickly, at least on the sorts of geological timescales over which evolution usually occurs. Red deer, wild boar, wolves and wild horses can be found in parts of the largely-deserted countryside. Public opinion in Italy over the summer divided into two camps – tens of thousands of animal ­lovers, activists, hikers and others who petitioned on social media and staged street protests demanding that the bear, named Daniza, should not be captured or killed for defending her young. The National Parks Service also recommends staying calm and speaking in low tones to avoid spooking the bear. The Marsican (left) has a powerful jaw for crushing nuts.

Giant ‘vampire’ anchovies hunted other fish in prehistoric times. “A little less,” Calliari says. In 2011, when conservationists here spotted only one mother with cubs, extinction loomed like a storm cloud. They are solitary animals, they do not live in a pack, they are shy and mainly nocturnal. The Marsican brown bear (also known as the Apennine brown), a subspecies of the more numerous Eurasian brown bear, is critically endangered. In the middle of October, a few weeks before hibernation begins, the leaves of the centuries-old beech trees that cover the high valley are turning a glorious gold, which the autumn sun only burnishes further.

But, following the shooting of the Pettorano sul Gizio, bear in the Apennines at the end of ­September, a pioneering organisation that mixes biodiversity, conservation, wildlife tourism and project management has tried to come to the ­rescue, finding solutions that can benefit both animals and humans.

The wind that had carried the rain was approaching from the trees, taking their human scent with it.

Voir les partenaires de The Conversation France. Alessandro turns around just as the bear pushes its way through some bushes, but the boy never stops moving.

The concept they have come up with is called rewilding, and the organisation, Rewilding Europe, is determined to help preserve and ­nurture endangered wildlife and natural areas across some of the more remote and beautiful parts of Europe. There are hundreds of different species of plants, a conservationist's and nature lover's dream, but the wildlife star of the Central Apennines is Ursus arctos marsicanus, the bear named after one particular Apennine peak, Monte Marsicano. Eyewitness footage captures a 12-year-old boy keeping remarkably calm as he retreats from a Marsican brown bear during a family hike in Italy’s Brenta Dolomites. They come in the spring to leave scent, as part of the mating process, or before hibernation to mark territory.

Calliari posted the video online after the incident.

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He, too, says that the bear Alessandro ran into had not been behaving aggressively and that it was “merely curious about a child with something in his hand”. There are no more than 60 let across a patchwork of national and regional parks, villages and farmland, with most found in the Abruzzo National Park, in central Italy. Natural Order: Rewilding Apennines project manager, Alberto Zocchi says that human emigration and the problems of rural economies in Europe are perfect conditions for rewilding. But organised efforts have only recently gathered pace.In 2012, newly established Abruzzo-based non-profit association Salviamo L’Orso (‘save the bear’) began to focus minds and funds on a series of initiatives aimed at protecting the bear as an umbrella species, which is a group with large area requirements whose conservation is of particular benefit to the whole ecosystem.

Within this context, what is the future of the unique isolated Apennine bear? 1901), L’expertise universitaire, l’exigence journalistique. The occasional golden eagle and griffon vulture soar in the vast skies above it. These are brown bears (Ursus arctos), the most common and widespread of the eight bear species. The Carnivorous Habits of Humans Are Endangering the Planet, Eight-Man Football: The Biggest, And Only, Game in Town, A Former Mercenary Proposes a Pentagon Makeover, The Reality TV Show That Interrogates ISIS Prisoners on Camera, Life in a Jordanian Refugee Camp Inspires Soap Opera, Axis of Easel: Churchill and Hitler's Painting Duel, Planet Reboot: Fighting Climate Change With Geoengineering, 'The Imitation Game' Sparks a New Wave of Code-Breakers, Vladimir Was Here: Finding 'Winners' in the War in Ukraine, After Scotland, Yorkshire Fights for Its Independence. A female brown bear, nursing two cubs, attacked a 38-year-old cable car operator, out foraging for mushrooms in the mountainous Trentino region near the Alps. This isn’t the only example of a brown bear subspecies adapting its jaw to its environment – in the Tibetan plateau, another isolated population, the Isabelline bear, has evolved unique slender mandibles in order to catch burrowing rodents.

Umberto and his business partner and fellow guide, Valeria Roselli, who joins us for the weekend, have long fought to increase awareness and protection. Initiatives promoted by Rewilding Europe and local groups are providing more pragmatic solutions to prevent increasing human-bear conflict – in 2007 three Marsican bears died due to eating poisoned carcasses.

In high meadows, I see more evidence of the animals: paw prints in the mud at a watering hole. Alessandro says in the TV interview that he loves nature and animals and that he thinks the bear “behaved well” toward him. Bear Attack: The endangered Marsican brown bear, above, has divided opinion in Italy between animal lovers and right-wing politicians. Marsican brown bear (via Animalia Life) Accepted scientific name: Ursus arctos marsicanus (Altobello, 1921) (Note that not all authorities recognise this as a subspecies.)

In 2019, TENT began offering trips to some of the projects it supports as part of a broader mission to raise awareness, as well as money. A 12-year-old boy just showed that he might be the coolest kid in Italy after he ever-so-slowly walked away from a big, hulking brown bear in a tense encounter caught on video. It could expand its range though, as there is suitable habitat throughout the Apennines. The animal was a Marsican brown bear, which can weigh up to 220 kilograms (485 pounds). "We are working to involve livestock owners, hunters and young ­people in a number of activities to provide ­lodging opportunities, services and better protection of the areas," says Alberto Zocchi.

Rewilding ­Apennines has just donated the first of two dozen sets of electric fences to local farmers, to help them protect their orchards, gardens, pens and sheds from wildlife, and to prevent further bear intrusions and subsequent human retaliation. How to spend your last hours before lockdown, Róisín Ingle: After seven months of this headwreck, what needs to be done feels harder than ever, Support bubbles: Everything you need to know, ‘Waiting for your children to die, knowing that it can happen at any time, is crushing’, 75 reasons to be cheerful – by Mary McAleese, Chris de Burgh, Sinéad O’Connor and more, ‘I am finding the balance of life is getting more and more complicated’, Railway cottage with amphitheatre garden in Ballsbridge for €745k, Dr Muiris Houston: ‘For me, the most shocking Covid-19 statistic of all is this…’, Frequently asked questions about your digital subscription, Specially selected and available only to our subscribers, Exclusive offers, discounts and invitations, Explore the features of your subscription, Carefully curated selections of Irish Times writing, Sign up to get the stories you want delivered to your inbox, An exact digital replica of the printed paper, Walk for the Weekend: Templecronan Loop, Co Clare, The great unlocking: Top holiday destinations welcome back tourists, Rosita Boland: The ache for distant places remains, ‘It’s not a nice atmosphere’: Dead calm in Dublin Airport.

Carlo Meloro works for Liverpool John Moores University. “Stop! Along with furious farmers, they've said that attacks on livestock and even humans will only increase if bears are allowed to roam free in the wild. Another subspecies of brown bears are Marsican brown bear.

At the point in relatively recent history when bears in the Apennines were no longer able to breed with the wider brown bear population, they began to evolve their unique jaws. But even then he manages to keep his grip on a bag of pine buds he has been gathering. Germano Palozzi, one of 35 rangers in Abruzzo, is looking for tracks and evidence of illegal hunting. Appearance. The brown bear is sometimes referred to as the bruin, from Middle English. In fact, Alessandro did everything he was supposed to do.

Opponents of the EU-funded Life Ursus scheme in Trentino, which has reintroduced brown bears into the region for the past 15 years, include politicians of the right-wing Northern League party. Alessandro Franzoi walks away from a bear he encountered in the mountains of northern Italy on May 24, 2020.

Instead, ancient DNA points to the existence of one massive European population of brown bears with high genetic flow from country to country. The boy, who was ahead of his family, turned around … In the 1980s, his family invested in commercial forestry to fuel its furniture empire. I notice a bear tattoo peeking out from the short sleeve of his khaki uniform. Near the small ­village of Gioia dei Marsi, just outside the boundary of the Abruzzo National Park, is the best bear-watching spot in Italy. "We want to show that there is also a business case for the wild," says Staffan Widstrand, a 55-year-old Swedish conservationist, wildlife photographer and language enthusiast, who is the marketing director for Rewilding Europe, founded in 2011 and based in Holland. Brown bear size is highly variable, depending both on subspecies and food availability. The public reaction in Italy over killings of the Marsican brown bear has been one of intensity and passion.

"These are just the right conditions to turn a problem into an opportunity. Please read our Commenting Policy first. Skull.

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The scientific name of the brown bear, Ursus arctos, comes from the Latin ursus, meaning "bear", and from ἄρκτος arktos, the Greek word for bear. It's a highly endangered ­subspecies, and there are estimated to be only 50 of the ­animals left in the national parks of the ­Apennines.

It was a moment of carefree play that belied their species’ uncertain future. WATCH: Alessandro, 12, was hiking with his family in northern Italy when a brown bear started following him. Their dwindling numbers have only compounded their peril, with a high level inbreeding often resulting in depression and disease.

“Photo,” he whispers hoarsely to his companion, Loris Calliari, who assures him he’s taking one. “Take a look,” Umberto says, as he hits ‘play’ on the little screen inside the box. Brown bear sounds including huffing, jaw popping and growling. Recently, Umberto tells me, he watched through binoculars as two cubs rolled down a hill alongside their mother. By Simon Osborne, March 2020. “Him” is the sizable brown bear shadowing the boy as he makes his descent during a family hike. On the positive side, a more recent census identified six reproductive females in the Apennine central range of Marsican bear with an estimate of ten pups produced during 2016. This means planting swathes of beech trees on deforested mountains; their nuts would also sustain wild boars, voles and bird species, boosting the food chain. The Marsican bear appears to have changed relatively quickly, at least on the sorts of geological timescales over which evolution usually occurs. Red deer, wild boar, wolves and wild horses can be found in parts of the largely-deserted countryside. Public opinion in Italy over the summer divided into two camps – tens of thousands of animal ­lovers, activists, hikers and others who petitioned on social media and staged street protests demanding that the bear, named Daniza, should not be captured or killed for defending her young. The National Parks Service also recommends staying calm and speaking in low tones to avoid spooking the bear. The Marsican (left) has a powerful jaw for crushing nuts.

Giant ‘vampire’ anchovies hunted other fish in prehistoric times. “A little less,” Calliari says. In 2011, when conservationists here spotted only one mother with cubs, extinction loomed like a storm cloud. They are solitary animals, they do not live in a pack, they are shy and mainly nocturnal. The Marsican brown bear (also known as the Apennine brown), a subspecies of the more numerous Eurasian brown bear, is critically endangered. In the middle of October, a few weeks before hibernation begins, the leaves of the centuries-old beech trees that cover the high valley are turning a glorious gold, which the autumn sun only burnishes further.

But, following the shooting of the Pettorano sul Gizio, bear in the Apennines at the end of ­September, a pioneering organisation that mixes biodiversity, conservation, wildlife tourism and project management has tried to come to the ­rescue, finding solutions that can benefit both animals and humans.

The wind that had carried the rain was approaching from the trees, taking their human scent with it.

Voir les partenaires de The Conversation France. Alessandro turns around just as the bear pushes its way through some bushes, but the boy never stops moving.

The concept they have come up with is called rewilding, and the organisation, Rewilding Europe, is determined to help preserve and ­nurture endangered wildlife and natural areas across some of the more remote and beautiful parts of Europe. There are hundreds of different species of plants, a conservationist's and nature lover's dream, but the wildlife star of the Central Apennines is Ursus arctos marsicanus, the bear named after one particular Apennine peak, Monte Marsicano. Eyewitness footage captures a 12-year-old boy keeping remarkably calm as he retreats from a Marsican brown bear during a family hike in Italy’s Brenta Dolomites. They come in the spring to leave scent, as part of the mating process, or before hibernation to mark territory.

Calliari posted the video online after the incident.

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He, too, says that the bear Alessandro ran into had not been behaving aggressively and that it was “merely curious about a child with something in his hand”. There are no more than 60 let across a patchwork of national and regional parks, villages and farmland, with most found in the Abruzzo National Park, in central Italy. Natural Order: Rewilding Apennines project manager, Alberto Zocchi says that human emigration and the problems of rural economies in Europe are perfect conditions for rewilding. But organised efforts have only recently gathered pace.In 2012, newly established Abruzzo-based non-profit association Salviamo L’Orso (‘save the bear’) began to focus minds and funds on a series of initiatives aimed at protecting the bear as an umbrella species, which is a group with large area requirements whose conservation is of particular benefit to the whole ecosystem.

Within this context, what is the future of the unique isolated Apennine bear? 1901), L’expertise universitaire, l’exigence journalistique. The occasional golden eagle and griffon vulture soar in the vast skies above it. These are brown bears (Ursus arctos), the most common and widespread of the eight bear species. The Carnivorous Habits of Humans Are Endangering the Planet, Eight-Man Football: The Biggest, And Only, Game in Town, A Former Mercenary Proposes a Pentagon Makeover, The Reality TV Show That Interrogates ISIS Prisoners on Camera, Life in a Jordanian Refugee Camp Inspires Soap Opera, Axis of Easel: Churchill and Hitler's Painting Duel, Planet Reboot: Fighting Climate Change With Geoengineering, 'The Imitation Game' Sparks a New Wave of Code-Breakers, Vladimir Was Here: Finding 'Winners' in the War in Ukraine, After Scotland, Yorkshire Fights for Its Independence. A female brown bear, nursing two cubs, attacked a 38-year-old cable car operator, out foraging for mushrooms in the mountainous Trentino region near the Alps. This isn’t the only example of a brown bear subspecies adapting its jaw to its environment – in the Tibetan plateau, another isolated population, the Isabelline bear, has evolved unique slender mandibles in order to catch burrowing rodents.

Umberto and his business partner and fellow guide, Valeria Roselli, who joins us for the weekend, have long fought to increase awareness and protection. Initiatives promoted by Rewilding Europe and local groups are providing more pragmatic solutions to prevent increasing human-bear conflict – in 2007 three Marsican bears died due to eating poisoned carcasses.

In high meadows, I see more evidence of the animals: paw prints in the mud at a watering hole. Alessandro says in the TV interview that he loves nature and animals and that he thinks the bear “behaved well” toward him. Bear Attack: The endangered Marsican brown bear, above, has divided opinion in Italy between animal lovers and right-wing politicians. Marsican brown bear (via Animalia Life) Accepted scientific name: Ursus arctos marsicanus (Altobello, 1921) (Note that not all authorities recognise this as a subspecies.)

In 2019, TENT began offering trips to some of the projects it supports as part of a broader mission to raise awareness, as well as money. A 12-year-old boy just showed that he might be the coolest kid in Italy after he ever-so-slowly walked away from a big, hulking brown bear in a tense encounter caught on video. It could expand its range though, as there is suitable habitat throughout the Apennines. The animal was a Marsican brown bear, which can weigh up to 220 kilograms (485 pounds). "We are working to involve livestock owners, hunters and young ­people in a number of activities to provide ­lodging opportunities, services and better protection of the areas," says Alberto Zocchi.

Rewilding ­Apennines has just donated the first of two dozen sets of electric fences to local farmers, to help them protect their orchards, gardens, pens and sheds from wildlife, and to prevent further bear intrusions and subsequent human retaliation. How to spend your last hours before lockdown, Róisín Ingle: After seven months of this headwreck, what needs to be done feels harder than ever, Support bubbles: Everything you need to know, ‘Waiting for your children to die, knowing that it can happen at any time, is crushing’, 75 reasons to be cheerful – by Mary McAleese, Chris de Burgh, Sinéad O’Connor and more, ‘I am finding the balance of life is getting more and more complicated’, Railway cottage with amphitheatre garden in Ballsbridge for €745k, Dr Muiris Houston: ‘For me, the most shocking Covid-19 statistic of all is this…’, Frequently asked questions about your digital subscription, Specially selected and available only to our subscribers, Exclusive offers, discounts and invitations, Explore the features of your subscription, Carefully curated selections of Irish Times writing, Sign up to get the stories you want delivered to your inbox, An exact digital replica of the printed paper, Walk for the Weekend: Templecronan Loop, Co Clare, The great unlocking: Top holiday destinations welcome back tourists, Rosita Boland: The ache for distant places remains, ‘It’s not a nice atmosphere’: Dead calm in Dublin Airport.

Carlo Meloro works for Liverpool John Moores University. “Stop! Along with furious farmers, they've said that attacks on livestock and even humans will only increase if bears are allowed to roam free in the wild. Another subspecies of brown bears are Marsican brown bear.

At the point in relatively recent history when bears in the Apennines were no longer able to breed with the wider brown bear population, they began to evolve their unique jaws. But even then he manages to keep his grip on a bag of pine buds he has been gathering. Germano Palozzi, one of 35 rangers in Abruzzo, is looking for tracks and evidence of illegal hunting. Appearance. The brown bear is sometimes referred to as the bruin, from Middle English. In fact, Alessandro did everything he was supposed to do.

Opponents of the EU-funded Life Ursus scheme in Trentino, which has reintroduced brown bears into the region for the past 15 years, include politicians of the right-wing Northern League party. Alessandro Franzoi walks away from a bear he encountered in the mountains of northern Italy on May 24, 2020.

Instead, ancient DNA points to the existence of one massive European population of brown bears with high genetic flow from country to country. The boy, who was ahead of his family, turned around … In the 1980s, his family invested in commercial forestry to fuel its furniture empire. I notice a bear tattoo peeking out from the short sleeve of his khaki uniform. Near the small ­village of Gioia dei Marsi, just outside the boundary of the Abruzzo National Park, is the best bear-watching spot in Italy. "We want to show that there is also a business case for the wild," says Staffan Widstrand, a 55-year-old Swedish conservationist, wildlife photographer and language enthusiast, who is the marketing director for Rewilding Europe, founded in 2011 and based in Holland. Brown bear size is highly variable, depending both on subspecies and food availability. The public reaction in Italy over killings of the Marsican brown bear has been one of intensity and passion.

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