Oso pardo

[Simon]

Nice post. Lisa.

[tonyninfas]

Fantastic news.
Let's hope that all goes well and that shie is re-united with her family without problems. 

[lisa]

Here's her release on video. She's definitely not short of fat reserves for the coming winter.

[lisa]

Fapas have revealed information on how Villarina is being tracked. Her movements are being monitored for 12 hours every day, via the two transmitters she's carrying, by a member of the regional government's environment wardens accompanied by a member of either Fapas or Fop. She's healthy and behaving normally.

[lisa]

Hot off the quayside at Santoña, an Iberianature "exclusive" - Following "Osas", another new book on the Cantabrian bear is about to be published by FOP. Titled "El Oso Cantábrico", the book will be illustrated with images taken by a Scandinavian photographer of bears in the wild.
 

[lisa]

Exciting news from Liébana today, a bear was in the village of Caloca yesterday. In broad daylight! The village is one of the highest in the valleys of Liébana, on the eastern flanks of the Picos de Europa. The witnesses include a neighbour who went out of his door to feed his goats and was stunned by seeing a bear two metres from him. The bear didn't see him and continued on its way. The other witness was the fish delivery man who saw the bear on the road just below the village. Although the villagers have been watching a female and her cub during the week, they reckon this was a male. There was a boar hunt going on at the time.

Look after the bears for me everyone, I'm off over the Bay of Biscay tomorrow.

[Simon]

That's a great post Lisa, as ever! It sounds like there's room for a bit of 'cultural exchange' between the neighbours of  the valleys of Liébana and the Val d'Aran!

Simon

[lisa]

The case of the dead bear with cranial injuries found by hunters last December has been closed, no suspicious circumstances having been found.
From nortecastilla.es
The other case of the poisoned bear found last August is still being investigated. (See page 10 of this topic).

[lisa]

And I really should mention (as Nick reminded me yesterday) the news that geneticists from Oviedo university have proven that, over the last two years, four male bears have moved from one population to the other; three from the west to the east and one from the east to the west. But have they intermingled? 
From El Pais.

[Technopat]

Greetings Lisa,
Thanks for that upbeat 
Mother-Nature-rules-OK regs.,
Technopat

Ps
If those corridors the article mentions are anything like the ones at my co-ed college residence, Spain's future bear population stands at least a statistical chance of increasing 

[lisa]

Hot off the quayside at Santoña, an Iberianature "exclusive" - Following "Osas", another new book on the Cantabrian bear is about to be published by FOP. Titled "El Oso Cantábrico", the book will be illustrated with images taken by a Scandinavian photographer of bears in the wild.
 

"El Oso Cantábrico" is published by the Fundación Oso Pardo and the Obra Social Caja Madrid. The photographer is actually Spanish (?!), Andoni Canela, and there's a digital version online. The book is available to buy from Oryx bookshop with no postal charges. Even more, any other books bought on the same order are also postage free 

[Simon]

Thamks for the update Lisa. Good news about the book.

Simon

[lisa]

I keep forgetting to report this one, the remains of a bear were found last week near Cervera de Pisuerga, Palencia. The headless remains have been taken for forensic tests.

[lisa]

Here's what's known, or what's being made known, so far about these remains. The bear was a young male and the remains are a few months old. Looks to have been eaten by something. Now I'll tell you, there's been a rumour going around that the young male bear that wandered through the village of Caloca (about the same time that a mother and cub were being observed on the outskirts of the same village last Xmas) is now no more and has been taken to Palencia...................

[lisa]

Seprona have found the a head in a house in the village of Herreruela de Castillería, Palencia. Apparently the guy was looking for deer horns when he found the head and kept it thinking it was from a wolf. We'll see.
http://www.soitu.es/soitu/2009/05/05/info/1241537504_416979.html

[Bob M]

All very odd.

Bob

[tonyninfas]

Hmmm !!

[lisa]

Fapas have managed to capture some photos of Villarina.

[nick]

Thanks Lisa. Posted this up on blog.

[Petrea]

Found this in El Pais yesterday:

Bruselas sienta en el banquillo a España por poner en peligro al oso pardo y al urogallo

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Bruselas/sienta/banquillo/Espana/poner/peligro/oso/pardo/urogallo/elpepusoc/20090625elpepusoc_16/Tes