A female with two cubs was shot on Sunday afternoon in Lierne in Trøndelag. The bears are said to have attacked several reindeer calves. A person has the status of a suspect.
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It was the person who fired who himself reported to the police at 17.20. In a press release, the police state that a female with two cubs was shot.
– We do not know the age of the bear cubs, says operations manager Rune Branmo to VG.
The first message the police received was that it was reindeer that had been attacked by the bear, and that was why he shot. The emergency law provision in the Biodiversity Act states that game can be killed if domestic reindeer are attacked.
– A person has the status of a suspect in the case, says police attorney Ole Andreas Aftret in a press release.
Working to get an overview
The police will now get an overview of what happened.
– When the course of events is mapped, an assessment of the case will be made against relevant criminal provisions, police attorney Ole Andreas Afret states.
The state administrator in Trøndelag and the Norwegian Environment Agency have been notified of the case.
Trøndelag under population targets
In Trøndelag, 25 bears were counted in the population last year, Jonas Kindberg, head of Rovdata, informs VG.
– That it was a female with cubs means that the bear was reproductive. They will not be until they are five years old, and you are therefore further away from reaching the population target in Trøndelag.
The goal in Trøndelag is that there should be three annual juveniles (litter with bear cubs, journ.anm.), Which means that you need a population of between 17 and 20 female bears. Last year there were nine female bears and 1.6 young, Kindberg explains.
– So for the stock this is unfortunate?
– In a purely stock perspective, yes. For the population, the female bear is valuable because she is reproductive. But here there are several considerations that must be taken, he emphasizes about the case.
The bear gets from one to four bear cubs – but an average of 2.4, Kindberg says. They go with binna for anywhere from one and a half to two and a half years.
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