On 8/1/05, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with Bill ... maybe the Swiss should stick to making chocolate and > leave wildlife management to nature. Perhaps the bear can be captured and > moved to a less populated area, one in which there's sufficient habitat for > it.
Sadly, it's not just a Swiss problem. At least once a year, some person gets mauled and eaten by a Cougar in Western Canada. It's usually either a hiker, or some "back to nature" type, who's constructed their house up on some mountain somewhere, right in the middle of cougar country. The cougar's usually starving (that's pretty much the only time they go after people), as human activity has driven away their prey. If the animal's caught, it's killed, for doing nothing more than what nature and instinct have programmed it to do: eat whatever it can when it's hungry. We've gone into their environment, but when the animal acts accordingly, we kill it. Sigh... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
