"She grabbed my left thigh; I panicked and fired a shot." Hunter faces controversial charges years after being attacked by bear: 'He saved his own skin' first appeared on The Cool Down.

(Photo by Valentine CHAPUIS / AFP) A prosecutor on Wednesday demanded that an 81-year-old French hunter be handed a four-month suspended jail sentence for killing an endangered female bear that ...

A 81-year-old French hunter went on trial on Tuesday, accused of killing an endangered female bear that had attacked him in the Pyrenees. The brown bear is a protected species in the mountain ...

He shot and killed the animal. Rives sustained leg injuries and was in a state of shock. A fellow hunter managed to stem the bleeding before he was evacuated by helicopter. According to the ...