Valtellina, a family and a close encounter with a bear in Albosaggia

The mayor's story:"They maintained exemplary behavior"

A family had a very close encounter with a bear in the woods of the Orobie Alps, in Valtellina.The warning went out immediately on social media in Albosaggia, the municipality affected by the sightings.

«It happened yesterday afternoon – he explains today on Handle the mayor of Albosaggia, Graziano Murada - and the family informed me of the meeting which took place at an altitude of 1700 meters in the locality of Cornasci, downstream of Lake Casera, in the territory of our town.They were about 100 meters away and immediately moved away from the plantigrade.But the scare was not a little."Murada immediately informed the Provincial Police of Sondrio, who informed them that there appeared to be no depredations of sheep or apiaries, as had recently happened in other places in Valtellina.«The members of the family – underlines the mayor – live in Albosaggia and with exemplary behavior they moved away from the animal calmly, without eliciting any reaction from the bear.The suggestion I give in cases of this kind is not to get close at all, perhaps to take photos or make videos with mobile phones, and to quickly report your presence to the municipal offices or to the Provincial Police for appropriate preventive initiatives."