A new case shakes Trentino: the carcass of an adult bear was found yesterday afternoon, September 18, by some hikers in the low Val di Sole. The report was immediately collected by the Trentino Forestry Corps which proceeded to recover the animal. The carcass will be transferred to the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of the Venezie, where investigations will be carried out to precisely establish the causes of the death.
Doubts about poaching
Loal, an antivivisectionist league, intervenes on the episode, who asks for maximum clarity and transparency. The Association announces that it wants to make access to the documents and to participate with a partisan doctor in the necroscopic examination, to monitor the investigation procedures. President Gian Marco Prampolini stressed that Leal will follow with great attention to the evolution of the investigations, especially in consideration of the suspicion of a possible poaching. For this he asks the competent authorities to ensure maximum transparency and speed in the assessment of the facts.
A massacre that has been going on for years
The case of the Orsa found dead is unfortunately not an isolated episode. Ever since, in 1999, the first two specimens of Bruno Bear – Masun and Kirka – were reintroduced in Trentino through the Life Ursus project, the population of plantigradi has undergone heavy losses. According to the data processed by researchers and activists, between 2000 and 2024, 68 bears disappeared, a dramatic balance that includes animals killed by poaching, specimens fallen by decision of the provincial council and only to a lesser extent victims of natural predations.
The knot of coexistence
The relationship between man and bear remains fragile. Despite the conservation efforts, over the years Trentino has often been the scene of conflicts, with political and judicial decisions that have lit debates at national level. Environmental associations denounce a real Ecatombe.
The death of this new bear therefore rekindles the spotlight on a balance never achieved: that between the protection of wildlife and the management of the territory. Pending the results of the autopsy, a crucial question remains open: how many bears will still have to die before coexistence becomes really possible?
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