Born Free Foundation - Keep Wildlife in the Wild

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Bears

Born Free’s Bear project:

• Protects threatened polar bears and funds conservation projects
• Investigates the plight of captive polar bears
• Campaigns to prevent wild bear exploitation
• Investigates and exposes the plight of captive bears

Born Free Acheivements:

• Thanks to our UK Polar Bear Surveys, only one British zoos keeps polar bears and there is great global awareness to the plight of bears in captivity (1986 & 1992)
• Stopping orphan polar bear cubs being sent to zoos by successfully adopting them to surrogate mothers, giving them a second chance of life in the wild (2001)
• Encouraging European farmers to use dogs rather than guns to protect livestock from the threat of bears and other predators (2001)
• Fighting the global trade in bear products (2005)
• Supporting the rescue of Moon bears from bile farms in China and Vietnam (2006)
• Funding the veterinary care of rescued dancing bears in India (2006)