First of all, I think that this whole affair is utterly scandalous and it made me very, very angry. However, there is a bit of misinformation. Canelle was the last indiginous Pyreneean female, but there are others which have been re-introduced, so the race is not going to die out just yet. The second thing is that the hunter who killed the bear was defending himself, as she attacked him in defense of her cub. At least, that's his story. I do believe that he was shooting in self-defense, what I can't understand is that they were hunting there at all, after the hunting society of Urdos had been informed that there was a female bear with a cub in the area. All in all, this whole story is a tragedy, and I do hope that they will succeed in finding the cub before it is too late.