A pair of hunters in southern Bavaria finally ending the meandering wonderings of Bruno the Brown Bear through Germany and Austria.For those not in the know Bruno was among a number of bears that were
releashed in northern Italy in an attempt to bring back the wild bear population.
Unfortunately Bruno didn't seem to obey national boundaries and wondered into Austria's Tyrol province and the German state of Bavaria.
Because of the bear's indiscriminate destruction of domestic livestock the
Bavarian government originally put a bounty on his head.Unfortunately
envrionmental and animal rights groups protested and the Bavarian government rescinded the bounty.
All attempts to trap or otherwise take Bruno alive failed.
As a result the Bavarian government decided to reissue the shoot to kill on sight order.
What is sad about this is that Environmentalist and Animal Rights groups are
more angry over the death of Bruno than the fact that he did numerous damage to the Bavarian agricultural buisness,especially the uncounted deaths of domesticated livestock and destruction of private property that his rampage through Bavaria and also Tyrol resulted in.