The Cinnamon bear was killed on November 1, 2004 by a hunter on the heights of the village of Urdos, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. He was indicted for destruction of a protected species before being released. The Pau criminal court confirmed in April 2008 the state of necessity and retained the state of self-defense. The death of the animal to delight in France a strong emotion. A news item with important consequences, to the point of becoming a matter of state. A team of taxidermists from Toulouse Natural History Museum (MHNT) a restored its original appearance to the animal.

“Cinnamon is a very small individual who weighs between 90 and 100 kilos, like ours from the Pyrenees in the end. These are individuals who evolve in a relatively small territory of mountain areas where small sizes are more privileged than heavy ones. , explains Brian Aïello to the magazine ‘1:15 p.m. on Sunday’ (replay). A dress almost always blonde with significant nuances of coat at the tips. It is really very pretty, it is very beautiful as a coat. She might not look very impressive like that, but she still imposes something pretty amazing. “

“We had watched, in a form of indifference, the disappearance of the last representative of an emblematic species”

“Some chosen one emerges from his neckline, from his shoulders, from the mass of his head, from the thickness of his claws, specifies the one who naturalized the plantigrade with Jean-Pierre Barthès. She was placed for eight after her death in a freezer at theToulouse National Veterinary School. By the time Cinnamon was repatriated, she was lying down, totally eviscerated by the vultures. All of the babies were missing and the eye wraps were badly damaged, with hardly any eyelids. We had a gaping hole in the right flank which was the entrance for the vultures to consume its entrails. This whole room is an addition of skin and hairs taken back. Cinnamon is heritage. It is an element of history, a marker of history too. The Pyrenean strain disappeared with it. “

“In terms of genetics, there is an element of irreversibility, something has chosen which has ended, add Brian Aïello. It may be a micro-event, or a non-event, but I think it tells us a lot more about our modern societies, our lifestyles … than what it can tell us about it. ours brown. “ Nicolas Hulot, former Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition (2017-2018) said at “1:15 p.m.”: “We watched with open eyes, in a form of indifference, the last representative of an emblematic species disappear, a Pyrenean strain that we have not examined. There is something we failed on, but this still caused a start. “

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