Ecodharma: brown bear population in the Pyrenees highest for a century (article)

[Kokuu]

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ury-says-study

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-

[DanM]

Thanks for posting Kokuu. Successful rewilding schemes are definitely one of the things that give me hope.

Gassho,
Dan
ST/LAH

[Doshin]

Doshin
St

[Tomás ESP]

I love the Pyrenees, thank you for sharing

Gassho, Tomás
Sat&LaH

[Tairin]

Thank you for sharing Kokuu.

I was curious so I looked this up European Brown Bears and North American Grizzly Bears (plus the Kodiak Bear) are all the same species. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bear

I’ve stood next to a live Grizzly (separated by glass). They are huge.


Tairin
Sat today and lah