French hunter given suspended sentence for killing protected bearThe bear, nicknamed Caramelles, has been preserved and is now on display at the Toulouse Natural History MuseumThe 150kg female bear, nicknamed Caramelles, has since been preserved by a taxidermist and is on display at the Toulouse Natural History Museum. The man said he had "no other option" but to open fire on the brown bear when it attacked him during a boar-hunt in 2021. An 81-year-old hunter in France has been fined and handed a four-month suspended jail sentence for killing an endangered bear in the Pyrenees mountains. Brown bear populations saw a sharp decline in the Pyrenees, with only about 70 left in 1954, according to the region's tourism board. In 2024, the French Office for Biodiversity estimated that the mountain range is now home to about 96 bears.