Chinese President Xi Jinping's trip to Europe is scheduled to include an excursion to the French Pyrenees mountain range on Tuesday. The first day of talks in Paris focused on trade policy and Ukraine ...

TOURMALET PASS, France (AP) — France’s president hosted China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees on Tuesday for private meetings after a high-stakes state visit in Paris dominated by ...

The population of brown bears in the Pyrenees mountains, which had been threatened with extinction, keeps growing, French authorities said Tuesday. Bears had nearly disappeared from the Pyrenees when ...

For the past 20 years, France’s government has been gradually reintroducing brown bears to the Pyrenees mountain range on the country’s southern border with Spain. Hunted to the brink of extinction, ...

The brown bear is among the largest land animals in the northern hemisphere. Whether there is still room for it in the French Pyrenees is uncertain. Photo courtesy of Flickr user 3dpete This is bear ...

They’d always loved being close to the mountains, but Jennie Vercouteren and her husband, Ward, never imagined that they’d end up living in the French Pyrenees. The couple, who met while they were ...

Bear numbers rose to from 52 to 64 last year, including 16 cubs – a steady increase since 1995, when there were less than a dozen bears. The figures were compiled by GSTOP, a transborder brown bear ...

Wardens in charge of the health monitoring of Iberian ibex introduced in the Pyrenees National Park captured Lumea, a male, and fitted him with a GPS collar. Val d'Azun (Hautes-Pyrénées), April 14, ...

Vultures have a poor reputation. At the Falaise aux Vautours (Cliff of Vultures) in the small village of Aste-Béon in the western Pyrenees, they are trying to change all that. In the souvenir shop, ...

Softly spoken and charming, François Arcangeli is an unlikely recipient of death threats. Nor does Arbas – the tranquil and somewhat forlorn village tucked away in the foothills of the French Pyrenees ...