Ariège: the hunter bitten by a bear out of danger

The bear’s body was recovered by helicopter, at an altitude of more than 1,200 meters on Sunday, November 21, then transported by the gendarmes to carry out an autopsy. This is a female slaughtered on Saturday afternoon in the Massif du Couserans (Ariege) by a hunter who crossed his path during a wild boar hunt. Seriously injured in the legs, the 78-year-old man was hospitalized and is out of danger Sunday evening.

Reintroduced in the Pyrenees 25 years ago, the bears would be more than sixty today. This is the first time that the animal has attacked humans since its reintroduction into this region. For Sabine Matraine, president of the Pays de l’ours association, this attack should not call into question their presence. “There will always be bears, period. So now, this is how we do to improve the means of cohabitation “, she explains. As for the two orphaned cubs, they could be around ten months old and would be big enough to survive without their mothers this winter.