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Bear near Cadavo Baleira

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Beautiful animal and encouraging to see they still exist there. I live in the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia and we have plenty of black bears as neighbors. They're good neighbors and only become a problem when humans get careless with food.
 
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I celebrate this! I live on Vancouver Island in Canada and I often see bears on my hikes.. and yes if we leave them alone they generally are fine, unless they get too human-adapted OR with cubs or do not try to chase them away if they are gorging on yummy berries!!!
 
It is only a matter of time before a pilgrim gets attacked as numbers of bears and their range increases. I read an article about bears in the Cambrian mountains. Conservationists are giddy with their successes, whilst locals are scared to leave their houses.
 
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Manch said:
I read an article about bears in the Cambrian mountains. Conservationists are giddy with their successes, whilst locals are scared to leave their houses.
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I think you may mean the Cantabrian mountains. I live fairly close to the Cambrian mountains and no one I know has any anxieties about bears.
 


It’s been many centuries since bears were driven into extinction in the British Isles. I think you mean Cantabria in Spain
 
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Black bears are everywhere in the mountains of California and coexist peacefully with people without issue except when it comes to scavenging for food. Trash cans and ice chests have to worry, but people do not. This is not something for pilgrims to be worried about.
 
The bears in Spain are Eurasian brown bears (Ursus arctos arctos) - the same species as the North American grizzly though with characteristics different enough for them to be classified as a separate subspecies from their horribilis western cousins.
 
Bradypus said:
The bears in Spain are Eurasian brown bears (Ursus arctos arctos) - the same species as the North American grizzly though with characteristics different enough for them to be classified as a separate subspecies from their horribilis western cousins.
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Yes, “different enough” because they shy away from human contact and are very timid. While physically they may resemble the North American grizzly, their personality is more like our black bears, which is why I referenced that. When people hear “bear” they become frightened, which is extremely unfortunate and the reason they were originally eradicated.
 
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Manch, you are right, it is only a matter of time before a pilgrim gets attacked. An extrapolation of the current probabilities suggests once in the next one thousand years. Unless there is a significant increase in the number of pilgrims dressed as beehives or dead sheep
 
Can you share a link to this article, please?
 
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