In Ariège, hunters believe that "cohabitation" with the bear is "impossible"

The one hunter was seriously injured and a bear killed on Saturday during a hunt in the town of Seix.

"Cohabitation is impossible," said Jean-Luc Fernandez this Sunday, the president of the Ariège hunting federation, the day after the meeting between a hunter and a bear, who left the first seriously injured and the secondkilled.

"The hunter is seriously injured, his legs were shredded, the fog fed and the femoral artery affected.The bear dragged him on more than 30 m and he owed his salvation only at the presence in the beaten of a volunteer firefighter who gave him a compression point, "said AFP Jean-Luc Fernandez.

Saturday afternoon, when a hunt took place in the town of Seix, on the edge of the forest, around 1.800 m, a 70 -year -old hunter who participated in a boar hunt was attacked by a bear followed by two cubs.

According to the words reported by the hunters, the man who first came across the cubs was violently attacked by the female "behind".

Four bear killed since 2020

"Fortunately he was able to keep his rifle and he was able to defend himself," said Jean-Luc Fernandez adding that the hunter is now "out of danger".

On the side of the Pays de l'Ours-Det association, which has been working for the return of the bear for 30 years, which is a protected species, in the Pyrenees, we deplore the injuries of the hunter and we expect the results of the'Judicial investigation open on Saturday."Since 2020, it is the fourth bear killed in the Pyrenees massif (two in Spain and two in France), and the first three have been killed in illegality," says Sabine Matraire, the president of the association."We ask that light be shed on the circumstances of this event and also that it leads to training for hunters.We have to draw the consequences, "added Ms. Matraire.

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