A documentary crew situated in northwestern Spain was lucky enough to catch glimpse of the rare brown bear specimen that was first seen within this particular Spanish region in 150 years from its last observance.
The team’s official statement proclaims: “After years of conservation work the O Invernadeiro protected area has become a suitable habitat for brown bears.” The name of the team project is “Montaña ou Morte,”and the team has placed cameras all over the protected conservation areas produced by Felipe Lage and under the direction of one Pela del Alamo.
Brown bears are protected in Spain since 1973 as a protected species, known to inhabit the provinces of Galicia according to historical records.
However, the population dwindled due to several human-inflicted reasons as well as natural circumstances, making the Spanish experts and authorities to introduce similar specimens from Slovenia to the Pyrenees region, the border town between France and Spain, over the course of 20 years of trial and error.
The crew has, and still is working with, the environmental experts at the O Invernadeiro, Oursense, Galicia conservation regional park, with Ricardo Prieto Rocha and Tomás Pérez Hernández. They were the ones who made the whole ordeal worthwhile, as they have they have spanned throughout the park area, spanning over 6,000 hectares, home to several packs and herds of wolves, boars, deer and all sorts of other wildlife.
The project crew from Zeitun Films “Montaña ou Morte,” follows a young male bear, 3-5 years old in maturity, and they have captured this particular bear snuffling in the grass in front of the camera, with NVG (night vision cameras) displaying the bear scratching, like any bears do, on a tree trunk for comfort and relaxation.
This proves that the bear withstood the winter climate by its own for the winter, making it logically plausible that the park will be able to host surplus population in the future as well.
However, some of the released population has been causing trouble in the local community, who goes by the name of Goiat, meaning “lad” in the local dialect.
The north-west Catalonia farmers complain that their hoses, sheep, goats and other livestock were put in grave danger, as well as their beehives getting totally destroyed by the pesky bear. He is supposed to have been alleged to be responsible for other sheep attacks in other regions such as Aragón, making some calling for his removal completely.
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