France winds up bear repopulation effort

In this file photograph released by Slovene Environment Ministry, French veterinarians and a Slovene hunter inspect a one and a half-year-old tranquilized bear near Masun, northern Slovenia, on May 15, 2006. Slovenia and France agreed in 2005 to send five brown bears to France's Pyrenees region this year to help boost the bear population.(AP Photo/Slovene Environment Ministry)

(AP) -- French wildlife officials released a fifth bear in the Pyrenees, the final step in a program to repopulate the region in southwestern France, the Environment Ministry said Tuesday.

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