Two bodies that float summer, surrounded by anything but water. The discovery of Two Carcasses of Marsican brown bear in an artificial snow annuity in Abruzzo. The Lazio and Molise (Pnalm) Arbuzzo National Park is known on its channels.
The report comes from Colle Rotondo, in the municipality of Scanno, a place where the guardiaparco and the technicians of the protected area intervened. The bodies of the wild have been seized and will be transferred to the Zooprophylactic Institute of Teramo. Will be the investigations conducted on the carcasses a reveal the nature of death.
Scanno: Two bears found dead inside the artificial snow of the Rotondo artificial snow.This morning I am …
Posted by National Park of Abruzzo Lazio and Molise on Wednesday, May 7, 2025
According to the park, they are two male specimens of last year, young bears then. Could they be the cubs of Amaarena? This is what everyone is wondering.
The first thought went immediately to her, Amarena, the symbol of Abruzzo as well as among the most prolific females of the park. In this regard, Luciano Sammarone, director of the Abruzzo Lazio and Molise National Park intervened. The hypothesis, according to what was said, would however be excluded.
The incident leaves upset also because, as we read between the lines shared by the park, the reservoir in which the two lifeless bears were found had to be subject of new safety works. The four metal grids installed in previous interventions had not rectum to the weather, unfortunately.
Not even a month ago another specimen of Marsican brown bear had been found dead in the Carritana valley, in the municipality of Ortona dei Marsi. The Marsican Ursina population, already at risk of extinction, It now matters two other specimens less.
The park staff undertakes to spread new updates as soon as they have the outcomes of the exams made on the carcasses. The bitterness and reflections of the Pnalm confirms it of this affair confirm it, placing the emphasis on the very difficult challenge of conservation of a unique species such as the Marsican brown bear.
It is difficult to witness the mood of each of us for this terrible loss. It is not a question of displeasure but a deep pain that unleashes a thousand questions. The nefarious event once again reminds us how complex and delicate is the challenge of conservation, which we take on, but working within a regulatory framework that gives us responsibility for the protection without giving us the adequate legal means to face all the situations, taking into account that there are also other institutions that have the ownership of the interventions, both inside and in the territories of the park “
