The lawmaker and former tourism minister said she was pleased that the regional administrative tribunal (TAR) had “put a stop to Fugatti’s obsessive war on bears in Trentino” following an appeal lodged by Leidaa and other animal rights' associations.
“Jj4 is locked up at Casteller and therefore cannot harm anyone,” she said.
Brambilla said she “truly hoped that the president and his government will now stop sowing fear and hatred toward the bears of Trentino: this is not the way to handle the matter”.
“The narrative of killer bears does serious damage to tourism, which is important for the economy of the province of Trento,” she concluded.
Green Europe national co-spokesman and Green and Left Alliance lawmaker Angelo Bonelli described the “policy of hatred towards bears” as intolerable.
The TAR ruling “confirms the sloppiness with which the President of the Province, Maurizio Fugatti, has handled the bear issue, behaving as if they were his property, having done nothing to prevent their concentration in the Val di Sol and to create ecological corridors to encourage their dispersal throughout the Eastern Alps, having forgotten to change the batteries in bear Jj4’s radio collar,” Bonelli said.
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