A life at risk, just to exist. It is not necessary to have attacked, you don’t need to be “dangerous”. Sometimes it is enough to exist in the wrong place to end up in the sights of the braces or inside an armored fence. It happens to the wolves, as in the recent case of the Malgs of Malles, in South Tyrol, where two specimens will be killed for having done what nature imposes on them: to predict. It happens to bears, which are often condemned to death or locked up at the Casteller, a structure now symbol of a more prison management than fauna.
When the fault lies with bad management, not of the predator
In the case of the two wolves, authorized to reduce by the President of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano Arno Kompatscher, human responsibilities are evident. The prevention measures against predations were in fact inadequate or absent: no guardian dogs and fences left open.
But instead of remedying the management errors, the most brutal shortcut is chosen: eliminate animals. Lav has announced an appeal to the TAR, defining the decision “bloody“And contrary to article 9 of the Constitution, which protects biodiversity.
Bears sentenced to death or captivity
The fate of the Trentino bears is no better. Several demolition orders have already been issued in recent years. Some were blocked in extremis by appeals won by animalist associations, but not all bears were so lucky.
Many have been locked up in the Casteller’s faunal center, a structure criticized for the conditions of detention and for the same idea that a cage may be the response to a coexistence problem.
A cohabitation still far away
The rhetoric of the “bad wolf” and the dangerous bear seems to be done on purpose to divert attention from the real problem: a backward model that refuses to adapt to the presence of wildlife. The demolition is often a convenient solution, politically spent, but ethically and scientifically fragile.
Justice, when it intervenes, shows that another way is possible. But it is sad that the survival of these animals must always go through courtrooms. In Trentino-Alto Adige, coexistence with the great carnivores remains more a promise disregarded than a reality. And for those who are born wolf or bear, the future is written too often with the ink of fear and prejudice.
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