A young bear is on the move in the Lower Engadine

Published: Wednesday, May 8th 2024, 16:00

A bear is on the move again in the Lower Engadine. The young male bear fell into a photo trap in the Swiss National Park and later left tracks in the Lower Engadine.

As the national park wrote on its Facebook page on Wednesday, park rangers first found tracks in the snow in the Ofen Pass region. On 2 May, the animal then fell into a photo trap as it trotted through the park wilderness. According to the national park, the picture clearly shows that it is a young male. The young animal later moved on.

On May 5, tracks of a bear were once again found near Ardez in Lower Engandine, as the Cantonal Office for Hunting and Fishing of Graubünden revealed on its website. The two locations where tracks were found are around a dozen kilometers apart as the crow flies.

The wildlife authority is currently assuming that there is a single animal in the region, as Arno Puorger, responsible for large carnivores at the office, explained to Radio SRF's Regionaljournal Graubünden. However, because it is not yet clear which individual it is, the wildlife authority cannot completely rule out the possibility of several bears in the region.

The national park suspects an animal from Trentino in Italy. "In the last 20 years, over 20 bears have migrated to the national park region," writes the park on Facebook. They have all been young males from the nearby Italian region in search of a new territory.

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