Reduced to the brink of extinction, the Brown Bear had almost disappeared at the beginning of the last century from the alpine zone, because of poaching and poisonings.
Today bears are returning but in the Alps people are no more accustomed to their presence and they have lost the precautions for peaceful coexistence.
Garbage cans, hives and hen houses are devoid of protections and it is clear that they are irresistible temptations for bears.
Bears are increasingly forced into a fragmented, anthropized habitat and this inevitably leads them more and more in contact with men.
Damage caused by these animals provokes strong resentment in the local population and this can be eliminated only by an adequate forest policy and by a greater ecological awareness.
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