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French hunter cleared over shooting of last Pyrenees bear
      #103432 - 25/04/08 12:28 AM


Charges were dropped against French hunter René Marqueze, seen here on April 12. Marqueze shot France's last native female bear in the Pyrenees mountains in 2004, sparking angry protests from animal rights groups.
(Tuesday April 22, 01:52 AM)

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Tuesday April 22, 01:52 AM
French hunter cleared over shooting of last Pyrenees bear

PAU, France (AFP) - Charges were dropped Monday against a hunter who shot France's last native female bear in the Pyrenees mountains in 2004, sparking angry protests from animal rights groups.

Rene Marqueze, 65, had been charged in 2004 with destroying an endangered species after shooting Cannelle the bear during a hunting party in the southwestern region, in what he called an act of self-defence.

After a drawn-out legal battle, a judge in Pau, southwest France, cleared Marqueze of the charge, ruling that he was not breaking the law by hunting in the area and had opened fire out of necessity.

The WWF environmental group denounced the ruling as "a licence to kill" that would undermine the protection of endangered species, while a second group, Ferus, demanded that two bears be reintroduced in the Pyrenees in compensation.

Cannelle's shooting sparked a wave of indignation in France, prompting the government to start an ambitious programme to replenish the bear population, reintroducing five Slovenian brown bears to the region from 2006.

The four females and one male have joined the 14 to 18 indigenous male brown bears, all that is left of the hundreds that roamed the mountains a century ago.

But the conservation project has run into fierce opposition from local farmers, who blame one of the bears for killing dozens of sheep and who are leading a fierce campaign to have her removed.

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Re: French hunter cleared over shooting of last Pyrenees bear [Re: NitroX]
      #103458 - 25/04/08 05:10 AM

I believe I once read that the penalty for killing a Siberian tiger in the old USSR was death. This could put someone attacked by such a beast on the horns of a dilemma. Personally, I think I would shoot first and worry about the punishment later.

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Re: French hunter cleared over shooting of last Pyrenees bea [Re: xausa]
      #103461 - 25/04/08 05:27 AM

Can't see how the bears were a viable population with only one female left anyway?????

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Re: French hunter cleared over shooting of last Pyrenees bea [Re: NitroX]
      #103462 - 25/04/08 05:30 AM

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Can't see how the bears were a viable population with only one female left anyway?????



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Re: French hunter cleared over shooting of last Pyrenees bea [Re: dnovo]
      #103465 - 25/04/08 05:43 AM

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Parthogenisis



Words with more than four letters are beyond my vocabulary.

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      #103469 - 25/04/08 06:25 AM

Mungo pawn in game of life. Better? Dave

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Re: French hunter cleared over shooting of last Pyrenees bea [Re: dnovo]
      #105939 - 23/05/08 10:20 PM

For all I know this sow was not from french genes poole but imported from Slovenia.
The hunter shot her in self defence, the charging bear dying at about one meter from him. Would have it been some greenie wandering there he would have been shredded to pieces.
Bear in Pyrenees are extinguished and I see no reason to replenish this area with Slovenian bears. Worse Slovenian bears should be manhandled and thus more or less lost their natural fear of the humans. Can I add that each bear cost about 200.000 $ per year, thanks to the numerous greenie association that pretend to study, survey and protect these exogenous unadapted alibis. Pyrenees mountains aren't any longer wild and quiet to harbor demanding genuine wild bears.

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