A hunter who shot dead a female Iberian brown bear in the Montaña Palentina in Castilla y León region has been handed a two-year jail sentence by a court for killing a protected species.
The incident occurred during a boar hunt in Ventanilla in November 2020.
The defendant has also been banned from hunting for four years and ordered to pay the regional government €17,505 for ‘civil liability’, according to Spain’s brown bear foundation, the Fundación Oso Pardo (FOP) which joined the prosecution in the case as a private entity.
Full report in Friday’s Costa Blanca News
