Protecting Tanzania’s elephants
These kinds of low cost solutions can be adopted by local people with ease, meaning they stop conflict long term in a way that killing individual bears or elephant can’t.
Dancing bears: prevention not cure
From finding and removing captive cubs from miserable lives as dancing bears, we have moved to ensuring they never leave the forest.
Sun bear added to Red List of Threatened Species
In addition to their numbers falling rapidly in the wild, tens of thousands endure pain and suffering in bear farms across south east Asia and by being forced to dance and fight for human entertainment.
Wild returns spell success for bear rehab
But Sally Maughan and the folks at IBBR help fill the void – offering us rehabilitation and release options that we didn’t have before, says Rich.
WSPA urges G8 leaders to start serving humane and sustainable farming
As outlined in our recent report – Industrial Animal Agriculture – Part of the poverty problem – industrial agriculture is not only responsible for the suffering of billions of animals around the world, is also a key part of the poverty problem.
Bears escape cruel ‘dancing’ destiny
WTI and WSPA initiated the Integrated Sloth Bear Conservation and Welfare Project in 2005 to work towards the holistic conservation of sloth bears in India, by providing alternative livelihoods for Kalandars and ensuring that the bears do not endure a life of suffering.
A new home and a new life for baited bears in Pakistan
After living a life filled with suffering, bears that have been rescued are often unable to adapt to a life in the wild.
WSPA urges Vietnam to stay on track to end bears suffering in bear farms
The fate of 80 illegally held and endangered Asiatic Black bears hangs in the balance as Vietnamese Authorities decide whether or not to remove them from cruel bear farms.
Three surviving bears rescued from Pakistan floods
Residents of the villages surrounding the Kund Park sanctuary spotted these bears and alerted BRC staff to their presence.
Despite the inaccessible roads and vague information on the location of the bears, staff from BRC bravely ventured into the flooded areas in search of these bears.
Four bears saved in latest local network success
The network includes former organisers of bear baiting events – locally influential people who have been convinced to give up this bloody sport and support our work.
So nearly the last dance
Despite recent reports that bear dancing has been completely eradicated from India, a lot of work still needs to be done before we can truly celebrate the end of this cruel practice; more bears remain in need of rescue.
Twenty years of bear care
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources brought the tiny cubs to non-profit IBBR which is celebrating 20 years of successful rehabilitation and release of black bears.
Tanzania’s first lady launches animal welfare stories
The official unveiling of Mzigo Usiyoyamkinika – a WSPA story anthology written to help school-age children learn about animal welfare – took place in a blaze of publicity as the Hon Mrs Salma Kikwete, first lady of Tanzania, was joined by 200 enthusiastic young readers.
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