28-07-2018 08:00 via seattletimes.com

It’s bears versus sheep in the Pyrénées and shepherds are traumatized

The French government is trying to restore the centuries-old brown bear population, which dwindled nearly to extinction by the 1990s. The shepherds are not interested in the bear as “an element of the natural heritage in the Pyrénées,” as a government brochure puts it.
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