The decision of the TAR
The Regional Administrative Court has suspended the order for the culling of the Jj4 bear signed on 8 April by the President of the Province of Trento, Maurizio Fugatti, after the death of 26-year-old Andrea Papi. The LAV association (Anti-Vivisection League) made it known on social channels, which filed an appeal against the measure in recent days.
Problem Bears
To date, the bears considered problematic in Trentino are the female JJ4 and two males, MJ5 and M62. The Interregional Action Plan for the Conservation of the Brown Bear in the Central-Eastern Alps (PACOBACE) – which contains a reference table with the problematic behaviors of bears, ordered according to a danger index and with possible actions – clarifies that “ To define a "problematic" bear it is important to know the subject's history and take into account any previous anomalous behavior; the degree of problematic increases when there is a repetition of potentially dangerous behavior by the same individual.
Other details
The assessment of behaviors must be conducted on a case-by-case basis, taking into account not only the interpretative key regarding the degree of problematic nature provided by the table".
JJ4 – The she-bear, born in 2006, was found to be responsible for the fatal attack on Mount Peller last April 5 from the genetic analyzes conducted. Already in the past, between 2020 and 2022, she had been responsible for three non-fatal events. On 8 April 2023, the province of Trento issued an order for the removal of the bear, with express reference to the competences in matters of public safety and security, which ISPRA deemed consistent with the PACOBACE indications.
MJ5 – As regards MJ5, this specimen was responsible for an attack last March 5 on a citizen of Rabbi, a municipality in the province of Trento. ISPRA expressed an opinion on 11 April 2023, deeming that the removal measure proposed by the province of Trento was consistent with the PACOBACE.
M62 – M62 is a male bear born in 2018; from May 2021 to April 2022 the specimen showed particularly confident behaviors for which the measures envisaged by the PACOBACE, even energetic, were found to be adoptable. atISPRA yesterday, 13 April, the request for evaluation was received from the Province of Trento; the Institute is therefore conducting a careful technical-scientific analysis, taking into account the provisions of PACOBACE (source: Federcaccia).