Mike the fearless brown bear shot by Swiss gamekeepers<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/mike-fearless-brown-bear-shot-swiss-gamekeepers-120509120.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/c._JvLno0PMPdchOLSDcLA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-02-20T134628Z_1_CBRE91J129I00_RTROPTP_2_OUKOE-UK-SWISS-BEAR.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A handout picture shows a brown bear dubbed Mike by its fans in the eastern Swiss Val Muestair valley" align="left" title="A handout picture shows a brown bear dubbed Mike by its fans in the eastern Swiss Val Muestair valley" border="0" /></a>ZURICH (Reuters) - A brown bear dubbed Mike by its fans has been shot and killed by gamekeepers in a mountainous border region in southeastern Switzerland after several run-ins with locals, Swiss officials said on Wednesday. How to deal with the bear, known as M13 by authorities, had sparked controversy between gamekeepers and environmentalists far outside the Graubuenden canton, which borders on Italy and Austria and where the animal was most often spotted. ...</p><br clear="all"/>
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