La restauration de l’ours brun (Ursus arctos) dans les Pyrénées françaises : entre politique environnementale et crise-mutation du monde agricole

• Published in: Norois
• Main Authors: Benhammou, Farid, Coquet, Marie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2008
• Subjects: environnement; montagne; patrimoine; société rurale; environment; heritage; mountain rural communities; scipo; anthro-se; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/norois.2224; http://journals.openedition.org/norois/2224

Much people feel concerned with the situation of the Brown Bear in the French Pyrenees more especially as it occupies the media scene regularly. The reintroduction in 2006 made forget that of 1996 and the existence of an indigenous population. The opposition from the ideas harms the comprehension of the complexity of the ecological, territorial, political and cultural stakes related to this plan of reinforcement. The hostile radical fringe to Bear sowed the disorder in the spirits. This one has become more serious thanks to the public authorities awkwardness and especially thanks to the crisis-change of the rural companies. However, even locally, the things are confused and the favourable opinions often appeared majority. The future of the “Lord of the mountains” as Pyrenean called him, is not secure. We will reconsider Bear and men traditional cohabitation in the French Pyrenees later. The cultural identities induced by this coexistence on this territory are considerable. The opponents of Bear evoke strongly how it is important to safeguard Pyrenean heritage announced like incompatible with the Bear’s come back. However, it appears that this badly definite “inheritance” and socio-economic balances of the rural areas concerned were threatened before this environmental policy which acts as discharge system. The meaning of our thought will also aim at thinking of a possible future of the mountain rural communities, confronted by a break with their model, revealed by Bear. Then It is the strong symbol not only for restoration of the biodiversity, but more generally in the way as the societies form part – or not – durably into a fragile environment. La situation de l’ours brun dans les Pyrénées françaises laisse peu de personnes indifférentes, d’autant plus qu’elle occupe régulièrement la scène médiatique. La réintroduction de 2006 a fait oublier celle de 1996 et l’existence d’une population autochtone. L’opposition des points de vue nuit à la compréhension de la complexité des enjeux écologiques, territoriaux, ...