The female of the brown bear, known as JJ4 or Gaia, who killed a young runner in 2023 in the Italian Alps, was transferred to a nature reserve in Germany. Deutsche Welle (DW), TASR, reported on Sunday.
The bear was transported to the Park of Wolves and Bears on Sunday (alternative Wolf-und Bärenpark) in the Freudenstadt district in the German Black Forest. The park staff confirmed that the animal had arrived in good health and behaved calmly. “She ate the feed, to see herself and is calm,” The park spokesman said.
JJ4 was caught and isolated in a facility near Trento, northern Italy after last year’s incident. Her tracement occurred after 6 April 2023 in the Peller Mountain discovered The body of 26-year-old runner Andrea Papi-it was the first fatal bear attack in the modern history of Italy.
The governor of the autonomous province of Trentino Maurizio Fugatti ordered to spend the bear after the attack. However, a wave of protests and legal steps by conservationists raised his decision. After long legal disputes, the court banned JJ4. The transport to Germany was carried out under strict secret to prevent new protests.
JJ4 has to live in Germany permanently in a specially modified enclosure with electric fencing and underground barriers. Its construction required costs of approximately a million euros, which came from donations from private persons. According to the staff of the Medarica park, he will also get a new name, as the name “Gaia” already has another individual in their care. Bear behavior will be monitored by a camera system.
The JJ4 bear is the daughter of the female Jurka, who has lived in the same booking since 2010. Its siblings are the well -known JJ1 bears, called Bruno, shot in Bavaria in 2006, and JJ3, killed in Switzerland.
About 100 bears live in the Trentino region todaya consequence of the LIFE Ursus project financed by the European Union, which was supposed to restore the brown bear population at the turn of the millennium. In recent years, however, the region has been facing an increasingly common conflict between people and bears. Only in 2023 the three bears were killed on the basis of new regulations allowing the so -called. targeted interventions.
JJ4 has been involved in the past two attacks on people, However, the Italian courts have repeatedly blocked attempts to remove it from the wild. Even after a fatal attack, the courts did not allow her to spend.
