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"WARSAW, Poland (
AP) — A young female bear caused a stir after wandering out
of the forest and into the leafy suburbs of the Lithuanian capital.
For two days, the brown bear ambled through the neighborhoods of Vilnius,
trotted across highways and explored backyards — all while being chased by
onlookers with smartphones and, eventually, drones.
The government then issued a permit for the bear to be shot and killed.
That did not go down well with Lithuania’s hunters who refused, aware that
there is only a tiny number of the protected species in the entire country.
The Lithuanian Association of Hunters and Fishermen said it was shocked by the
government order.
The association’s administrator, Ramutė Juknytė, told
The Associated Press on
Wednesday that the bear was a beautiful young female who was about 2 years old
and did not deserve to be shot. “She was scared but not aggressive. She just
didn’t know how to escape the city but she didn’t do anything bad,” he said.
The organization tracks the movements of bears. It believes there is only five
to 10 bears in the Baltic nation, but does not have a precise number."
Via Christoph S.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
