First brown bear sighting in northern Spain in 150 years

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A brown bear has been spotted traversing a rugged and sparsely populated area of north-west Spain for the first time in 150 years thanks to a set of camera traps and a bit of luck.

Images of the animal were captured on cameras set up by a crew shooting the film Montaña ou Morte (Mountain or Death) in the Invernadeiro national park in Galicia’s Ourense province.

“The bear, a male aged between three and five, is the first to be filmed in the area and probably the first to have crossed through the region in the past 150 years,” the production company Zeitun Films said in a statement.

Brown bears have been a protected species in Spain since 1973. In an effort to consolidate the bear population in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, brown bears from Slovenia have been introduced over the past two decades.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/03/brown-bear-spotted-in-north-west-spain-for-first-time-in-150-years-galicia

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Wow, in New Jersey they cull/hunt them to reduce the population, they are many

 

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It's nice to see all these bears and wolves showing up in European countries again after 100's of years.