21 April 2018
A national park in central Italy is
investigating the death of a rare brown bear during an operation to capture it.
Biologists at the park in the Apennine
mountains had trapped the animal to fit him with a radio collar so they could
track his movements.
But the male Marsican bear began to struggle
to breathe as he was being sedated and died shortly afterwards, despite efforts
to revive him.
Wildlife officials have described the loss of
the animal as "very serious".
"This is a subspecies in danger of
extinction that now counts only 50 individuals or little more," said WWF
Italia, as it called for a review of capture procedures.
The bear was captured in a tube trap on
Wednesday night, as part of an authorised operation at the Abruzzo, Lazio and
Molise nature reserve.
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