ROME: Italian politicians and wildlife experts on Friday condemned the fatal shooting of a rare brown bear, as a search was underway for her two cubs.

Amarena was one of the most popular of the Marsican brown bears in the Abruzzo National Park in central Italy, often pictured in and around the area with her offspring.

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