After a winter of hibernation, the bear, known to scientists as M49, is on the prowl again, raiding farms and beehives.
Three years old and weighing around 140 kilograms, the bear has broken into barns searching for food, before being chased away by sheepdogs.
Forest rangers narrowly stopped it from killing a donkey on a farm near the village of Daiano.
The donkey was injured but survived, while the bear ran off into a blizzard.
The bear has been seen close to villages and its paw prints found in the snow.
M49 made headlines in July 2019, when it managed to climb over three electric fences and a four-metre-high barrier at the Casteller wildlife centre in the northern province of Trentino before disappearing into the woods.
M49 is part of the Life Ursus project, which since the early 1990s has worked to reintroduce brown bears into the Trentino region after their population dwindled to just four in northern Italy.
Today, the population stands at around 50.
