Cachou the brown bear was found dead on the mountains just above the village of Les, in the Aran Valley.
Photographer: Angel Garcia/BloombergClimate Adaptation
The Life and Suspicious Death of Cachou the Bear
Conservationists saw the 6-year-old brown bear as a symbol of hope. Villagers saw him as a menace. Then he turned up dead.
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Ivan Afonso checked his computer one last time before picking up the phone. It was April 2020, and like most of Spain, Afonso was stuck at home under a strict Covid lockdown. But his mind was in the mountains.