“This is a story about the government wanting to please animal conservationists’ by reintroducing bear...”
I see it as a story of a pricks in government who don’t have to worry where their next meal comes from—like these farmers. If they need money, they merely raise taxes. And if you don’t pay up, you get SWAT-teamed.
If it impacted these government tyrants ability to prosper or feed themselves, they’d never introduce bears anywhere. But since it doesn’t impact them, screw the people.
Spain and France have also reintroduced wolves, which are now wreaking havoc with livestock and are suspected of being responsible for several deaths of people, mostly elderly, in rural areas.