News: Our work with bears

After a series of dramatic ups and downs, Nepal’s last known ‘dancing bear’ arrived today (July 11) at a specialist sloth bear sanctuary in India. He was wrongfully placed in a substandard zoo earlier in 2018

After an emotional, uncertain few months, authorities have agreed to free Rangila the bear from a substandard zoo in Nepal. We helped rescue Rangila from the ‘dancing bear’ trade in December 2017, but he was then secretly taken to a zoo instead of a sanctuary

After 20 years of confinement in a concrete cage, Anca, a 24-year-old female brown bear, has a new home at our supporter-funded bear sanctuary in Romania

Winter has arrived at the bear sanctuary in Romania.