The photo shows a young firefighters and civil defense personnel to hold down the binding of the spread eagle and bear, pull its ears to arouse public anger in Mexico, brought the fine on Friday involved.
The black bear was returned, hunted to near extinction 40 years ago in Mexico. After two years of drought, forest fires and hot weather caused a large number, wandered into a densely populated area, where they face a brutal bear market capture and lure, a tradition left over from the old era.
3 ? - year - old female bear caught this week Zaragoza, the outskirts of a city in the northern border state of Coahuila, about 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Eagle pass, Texas, to restore from the mouth and claws injury suffered serious caught by the local people and turned over to the volunteer firefighters and civil defense workers.
This is a photo of the emergency personnel who decided, was later distributed on social media sites to spread its claws with a rope tied to the Hawks helpless, the damn mouth Bear "celebrate" the hook. A man pull its ears.
"This is intolerable, Environment Minister Juan Elvira Quesada said," We are going to go after these people the law with all the power. "
Javier de Jesus Rodriguez, environmental crimes prosecutor for the state of Coahuila, the local volunteer fire department and civil defense office said, were each fined 15,000 pesos ($ 1,170). He said, fine, "animal abuse" levied a collective, rather than individual.
"Obviously, this is low, because the animal body is in good condition," he said.
Rodriguez said the government released the bears into the surrounding mountains on Friday, near her Sierra de LA, an area known as the big bear population Bala foot of the mountain, has been arrested. "Today, she's in good spirits," he said.
"Residents bundled withstand such civil defense and firefighters appeared, rather than helping them to join them, this is their mistakes, bear pictures, and allow it to continue to be tied up," Rodriguez said.
Bear abuse in Mexico is a common problem in, Director Manuel Moos Keith, wildlife and parks of the northern border state of Nuevo Leon state, said another.
"This is a situation occurs in a large number of public farm, we got a report to capture these animals, and because they have the equipment to catch them, they lasso and cooperate with them, just as they are in this case," said Moose Keith.
Moose Keith, biologists say, 2012 was a peak year, which is Mexico's third largest city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Bear invasion. He said that the invasion of about three dozen bears the official response so far this year.
He said, more and more bears wandered into the the urban main reason is a series of unusually dry, hot year, and the forest fires.
"In fact, in climate change," he added. "The hot season has become a lot of time."
Rodriguez said the same seems to be true of the Coahuila state.
"There is a huge drought, because of this reason, the Bears out of the mountains, looking for a source of food and water."
To the north and Central Mexico, once found the original being hunted black bear habitat in Mexico about 80 percent of the first half of the 20th century. Protected species, the Bears rebounded, especially in the extreme northern Mexico near the U.S. border, announced in 1994 it is estimated that their total number is still being studied.
Fernando Cortes, a veterinarian and bears the Federal Ministry of the Environment, experts say, the staff at the scene, he and others have seen a lot of bears.
Although the level of the total bear population in Mexico is still in progress, Cortes said: "Our data show that the number of bears being restored."
"Some cities in the north, we have bears in infested, this is not common years ago," Cortes said.
He said that the increasing number of bear encounter, another reason may be due to the expansion of human settlements to the bear habitat.
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