The Italian environment minister is quite upset about the Bavarian environment team that had the patience of a two year old who feared that Bruno might "someday" attack a human despite the only human interaction being when hikers followed Bruno and upset him, so they killed him. My German friends are equally furious about the killing of Bruno and tell me the story is front page news there and a hot topic of debate right now, right up there with the German national team in the World Cup. How did these nature-haters even get jobs working with the environment?
Italian Environment Minister Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio said in Luxembourg at a European Union session on the environment that the bear, a protected species, should have been shot with tranquilizers and transported back to Italy. The Italian news agency Apcom said Scanio complained that his German counterpart, Sigmar Gabriel, appeared unaware of Italy's offer to send specialists to capture and repatriate the animal."We consider very serious and irresponsible the shooting of a bear, which was an example of a protected species being reintroduced in Italy," Scanio told reporters. "It is not credible that the EU asks all the world to protect species threatened with extinction, such as elephants or rhinoceroses in Africa, and then allow a protected bear to be slain on its own territory."
Like he said.
