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Michela Vittoria Brambilla, president
of the Italian League for the Defense of Animals and the
Environment (Leidaa), on Tuesday hailed the suspension by a
court in Trento of a new culling order against Jj4, the female
bear that attacked and killed 26-year-old trail runner Andrea
Papi on April 5.
The lawmaker and former tourism minister said she was pleased
that the regional administrative tribunal (TAR) had "put a stop
to Fugatti's obsessive war on bears in Trentino" following an
appeal lodged by Leidaa and other animal rights' associations.
"Jj4 is locked up at Casteller and therefore cannot harm
anyone," she added.
Brambilla said she "truly hoped that the president and his
government will now stop sowing fear and hatred toward the bears
of Trentino: this is not the way to handle the matter".
"The narrative of killer bears does serious damage to tourism,
which is important for the economy of the province of Trento,"
she concluded.
Green Europe national co-spokesman and Green and Left Alliance
lawmaker Angelo Bonelli likewise described the "policy of hatred
towards bears" as intolerable.
The TAR ruling "confirms the sloppiness with which the President
of the Province, Maurizio Fugatti, has handled the bear issue,
behaving as if they were his property, having done nothing to
prevent their concentration in the Val di Sol and to create
ecological corridors to encourage their dispersal throughout the
Eastern Alps, having forgotten to change the batteries in bear
Jj4's radio collar,"
said Bonelli.
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