Dear all
With good news often being thin on the ground, here at least is a small crumb of glad tidings, in the form of increasing numbers of brown bears in the Pyrenees region. This follows the reintroduction of bears into the region in 1996, where they had become locally extinct, to the level of seventy bears currently.
Seventy bears may not sound like a lot but 1) apex predator numbers are usually low compared to other species, and 2) this came from the reintroduction of only three bears just over a quarter of a century ago.
Rewilding should definitely be part of any plan to improve the state of planetary health, even if this can come with problems over conflicting demands on land use, and seeing bears back where they belong in the Pyrenees is definitely a good thing.
Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-
With good news often being thin on the ground, here at least is a small crumb of glad tidings, in the form of increasing numbers of brown bears in the Pyrenees region. This follows the reintroduction of bears into the region in 1996, where they had become locally extinct, to the level of seventy bears currently.
Seventy bears may not sound like a lot but 1) apex predator numbers are usually low compared to other species, and 2) this came from the reintroduction of only three bears just over a quarter of a century ago.
Rewilding should definitely be part of any plan to improve the state of planetary health, even if this can come with problems over conflicting demands on land use, and seeing bears back where they belong in the Pyrenees is definitely a good thing.
Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-
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