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Dear all, as Italian citizens we are contacting all major European newspapers to inform them of an unfortunate fact that is happening in the Trentino Alto Adige Region.
The League administration has issued the first orders to kill several "aggressive and problematic” bears present in Trentino with the goal of killing 70 of them!
The real problem is that bear management in that area is superficial and the necessary measures were never implemented so that contact between humans an plantigrades would be limited. The bears were reintroduced in 1995 with a project called Life Ursus funded by the European Union.

Too many things did not work and were left to chance in this repopulation project: after an initial period of control on the mating specimens, radio collars were considered no longer needed or too expensive.
Information boards proved inadequate.
There's clearly nothing effective in the administration's actions: female bears have not been sterilized despite permission from the competent bodies, radio collars have a dead battery, bear-tracking apps are not used, people are unaware about preventive or defensive behaviors to be implemented in case of a bear encounter, deterrent devices are absent, anti-bear bins have not been installed, wildlife corridors for dispersing excess specimens to other mountains have never been implemented, and human-forbidden buffer zones for breeding specimens are not contemplated, because every square meter of territory is good for exploiting tourism.
Ultimately, no useful work was done, despite the substantial funds allocated.

This indifference from institutions led to close encounters that resulted in tragedy with the recent death of a boy, the only death in many years of coexistence.
With the excuse of a single attack whose contours are confused, authorities aim to halve the number of specimens by killing them.
The victim’s family stated that the death of the bear wouldn’t do him justice and that blame for the incident lies with the mismanagement of the project by local politicians.

The Italian population is expressing opposition and outrage. Eighty percent of Italians are against these killings, as is the law, yet local politicians insist on the culling.
Animal welfare groups asked for the bears deemed problematic to be moved to sanctuaries. Alternatives do exist. The willingness to kill is merely an unnecessary and cruel act of force.
We ask foreign newspapers to help us save the bears by giving prominence to this news and to bring our voice out of Italy.

Sincerely

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Gentilissimi,
come cittadini italiani stiamo contattando tutte le principali testate giornalistiche europee per informarle di un fatto increscioso che sta accadendo nella Regione Trentino Alto Adige.
L'amministrazione della Lega ha emanato le prime ordinanze per uccidere diversi orsi presenti in Trentino come orsi aggressivi e problematici con l’obiettivo di ucciderne 70!
Il vero problema è che la gestione degli orsi in quel territorio è superficiale e non sono mai state attuate le misura necessarie affinché il contatto tra umani e plantigradi fosse limitato. Gli orsi sono stati reintrodotti nel '95 con un progetto dal nome Life Ursus finanziato dall'Unione Europea, Troppe cose non hanno funzionato e sono state lasciate al caso in questo progetto di ripopolamento che, dopo un primo periodo iniziale di controllo sugli esemplari che si stavano riproducendo, ha pensato bene che i radiocollari non servivano più o costavano troppo. Pochi cartelli informativi sono risultati insufficienti.
È evidente che non vi sia stato nulla di efficace nelle azioni dell’amministrazione: non sono state sterilizzate le femmine nonostante gli organi competenti avessero dato il nulla osta, i radiocollari degli orsi sono scarichi, le app per la localizzazione degli orsi non vengono utilizzate, la cittadinanza è ignara sui comportamenti di prevenzione o difesa da attuare in caso di incontro con un orso, i dispositivi dissuasori non esistono, i cassonetti anti orsi non sono stati installati, i corridoi faunistici per la dispersione

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