Bruno and the Bear (254/268)

Bruno and the Bear (254/268)

The Abruzzi bears live in a densely inhabited country, just a 2-hour drive from a major city. This makes their survival until today all the more remarkable. Despite considerable conservation efforts however, their future remains uncertain.

The Abruzzi bear, a sub-species of brown bear, is only found in the Italian National Park of Abruzzi, Lazio and Molise and its surroundings, where it is protected. While numbers have increased over recent years to 50, this is still too few to guarantee a secure future for the symbol of this region. Almost half the new generation of bears will not survive their first year. Committed wildlife photographer, Bruno D'Amicis and the Rewilding Europe Initiative want to change this.
These bears live just a two-hour drive from Rome, in the most southerly Alpine region in Europe, Abruzzo. Here you will also find the most mountainous part of the Apennines, that 1,500 kilometer long ridge that extends right down through Italy from the Alps to the sole of the boot. The National Park is not just home to the Abruzzi bear but also to the Italian wolf, which finds plenty of prey here.
The film team accompanies Bruno D'Amicis on his journeys through the wild Abruzzi.

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