Before he found himself on the hunters’ and poachers’ rifle range, the Maglic bear crossed the whole of Zelengora in just over a month and visited all the lakes on that mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
The intervention team for large carnivores of the BiH entity Republika Srpska (RS) announced on June 20th that they had been informed through an application that Maglic‘s movement had been stopped.
“We went to the field and found a cut collar, and a kilometer and a half away, a shot bear. It was a healthy animal in full force that had yet to develop into a real big brown bear,” Bojan Paprica from the Intervention Team told.
The brown bear is an endangered species in Europe. It is also on the red lists of protected plant and animal species at the level of BiH entities of the Federation of BiH (FBiH) and the RS.
Namely, the five-year-old bear Maglic, named after the highest mountain in BiH, wore a tracking collar just over a month before he was shot in a hunting ground which is run by the Sutjeska National Park.
The intervention team informed the police and the competent prosecutor’s office. The team also claims that there are certain results in the police investigation, but specific details have not been released yet.
Laws in BiH in such cases provide for fines of up to 20.000 BAM (about 10.000 euros), including prosecution of those responsible.
Unfortunately, BiH does not have state regulations, a list of endangered plant and animal species, or institutions responsible for their protection, RSE writes.
E.Dz.
