Activities by the Trentino Forestry Corps continued throughout the day at the site of the encounter between the two hunters (who were on an excursion and were not armed) and the bear accompanied by a cub at dawn today. Along the Mandrel path - which leads to malga Avalina in the municipality of Roncone - some organic samples were recovered in order to genetically identify the subject: information that will enable the history of the specimen and the territory it frequented to be known, thanks to the database of the Province's Fauna Service resulting from the genetic monitoring of the ursine population. According to the dynamics of the close encounter, in order to classify this specimen as problematic according to the Pacobace (Interregional action plan for the conservation of the brown bear in the central-eastern Alps), it will therefore be necessary to complete the investigations. Following these identification checks, consequent measures may follow, including the culling of the specimen.
In the meantime, the President of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Maurizio Fugatti, had a conversation with the bruised boy to ascertain his condition.
Publication date: 30/07/2023
