A brown bear fell into a photo trap in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The recording of the wildlife camera comes from the weekend, as the Bavarian State Office for the Environment announced on Tuesday in Augsburg. Further current sightings are therefore not yet known.
A brown bear was last sighted in Bavaria in spring 2020. In the winter half-year in the area between Reutte in the Austrian Tyrol and the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, corresponding indications were confirmed several times. It is still unclear whether the weekend was the same animal that was first recorded in Bavaria in 2019. At that time, 13 years after the bear known as “Bruno”, another brown bear roamed through Bavaria. He was also photographed by a wildlife camera in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district.
According to the state office, young males sometimes travel very far in search of a female. The nearest brown bear population is around 120 kilometers from Bavaria in Trentino, Italy.