{"id":561878,"date":"2026-05-02T05:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561878\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T05:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:15:10","slug":"rare-bear-sighting-in-swiss-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561878\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare bear sighting in Swiss valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b63f3f46fb623fcadaff64d1d1bc7034668e8e0e-91348835.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"GR: the bear returns to Valposchiavo\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                GR: the bear returns to Valposchiavo            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        A photo-trap has snapped a bear in the Valposchiavo valley for first time in the southeast corner of Switzerland for several years.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        May 1, 2026 &#8211; 14:58\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/about-us\/swissinfo-ch-newsletter_newsletter-subscription\/42152624\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">+ Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the recent reports of a bear in the Lower Engadin, between Ftan and the Ofen Pass, a specimen has now also appeared further south in the the woods between Le Prese and Miralago in canton Graub\u00fcnden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/climate-solutions\/swiss-show-themselves-to-be-bear-friendly\/1002284\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">+ Brown bears making comeback in Switzerland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No-one has seen it with their own eyes, but the presence of the animal was confirmed on April 29 by a private photo-trap between Brusio and Poschiavo. <\/p>\n<p>The information is posted on the website of the Canton Graub\u00fcnden Office for Hunting and Fishing, which has a map on which sightings are reported.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of a bear south of the Bernina had not been detected for several years. The last sighting was in spring 2020, when a specimen was filmed on a mobile phone in broad daylight in a hunting lodge in the Spl\u00fcga area near the Bernina Pass.<\/p>\n<p>From 2012 to 2013, the presence of the bear M13 had raised several problems in Valposchiavo. The bear had lost its shyness towards humans and had approached fallow fields and houses in search of food. On February 19, 2013, it was shot at Miralago.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/eb4926ebd9321402ff1190fa2237acda-ohne_titel6-35035516-data.jpg\" width=\"1262\" height=\"1164\" alt=\"M13 bear on rock\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Switzerland\u2019s only wild bear is shot    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Feb 20, 2013                    <\/p>\n<p>                The brown bear known as M13 has been killed after it proved impossible to keep him away from human settlements.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/archive-science\/switzerland-s-only-wild-bear-is-shot\/35035130\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Switzerland\u2019s only wild bear is shot<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Translated from Italian by AI\/mga<\/p>\n<p>                How we work            <\/p>\n<p>We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. 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