<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5fb10eba-3f85-42c1-87b1-def141f3ae07/D0E1B8D6-91AD-4690-A7A2-6DE7ABE60A41/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/117/article_5184.asp" href="http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/117/article_5184.asp" style="font-size: 11px;">www.rfi.fr</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/117/article_5184.asp"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.rfi.fr/img/E7C156FF-885C-41EB-814B-ED73BEAA133C" alt="A bear in the Pyrenees national park(Photo: Jean-Noël Lafargue/free access)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/117/article_5184.asp"><DIV class="chapeau">The French government has launched an investigation into the alleged killing of two bears in the Pyrenees mountains, according to Secretary of State for Ecology Chantal Jouanno. Legal action will be taken if the claim that the bears, which are a protected species, were killed in the spring proves to be true, she says.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/117/article_5184.asp"><P>Police are looking into the alleged deaths and an investigation is being conducted by the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.oncfs.gouv.fr/org/oncfs_ang.pdf">National Hunting and Wildlife Agency</A>, Jouanno told the <EM><A target="_blank" href="http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2009/09/20/676748-Exclusif-Ours-la-Ministre-s-en-mele.html">Dépêche du Dimanche </A></EM>newspaper. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/117/article_5184.asp"><P>She ordered the probes after the leader of a group opposed to the reintroduction of bears into the region claimed that two bears had been killed last spring.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/117/article_5184.asp"><P>"Some people are doing a bit of clearing up," Philippe Lacube of an anti-bear group declared last month. "I can honestly tell you that two bears were killed this spring in <A target="_blank" href="http://www.mapsworldwide.com/sku_10221.htm">Haute-Ariège</A> [an area in the Pyrnees]."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/117/article_5184.asp">Bears had died out in France but in 1996 three were brought from Slovenia in an attempt to reintroduce them to their old habitat.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D0E1B8D6-91AD-4690-A7A2-6DE7ABE60A41/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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