French farmers hit out at reintroduction programme of brown bears in Pyrenees after incident on Spanish borderMore than 200 sheep have plunged to their deaths in the Pyrenees while apparently trying to escape a brown bear. The bodies of 169 sheep were found the next day at the foot of the cliff in the Spanish village of Lladorre. The last female brown bear native to the Pyrenees was shot dead by hunters in 2004. More than 130 sheep died in a similar, bear-related incident in the French Pyrenees last year. In September last year, the corpse of a brown bear – a protected species in Spain – was found with a gunshot wound to the chest in the northern regions of Asturias.

Source: The Guardian July 23, 2017 11:10 UTC