Why won’t you Free the Bears?

Hello, my name is Lara and thank you for choosing and taking an interest in my blog! I feel really strongly about the destruction of bears and their homes. Almost nobody has heard of the charity ‘Free the Bears’ and I really want that to change. Although most people know about the polar bear or panda on the edge of extinction, most don’t realise how many different types of bear are at risk. Once you’ve read my blog I hope you will feel more informed about bears and this charity.

An example of what we’re doing to kill bears is bear smuggling. A man from the Ukraine claimed he was a circus performer, working for a now retired and old bear ‘Kesha’. He told officers that the bear was a member of his family, that they never went anywhere without each other. He tried to smuggle Kesha across the border, from Russia to the Ukraine, meaning the bear was then taken to the zoo. It was taken from its natural habitat because of the man. It was a Syrian Brown Bear, a type of bear that is on the brink of extinction. Just one less in the wild.

Thanks to Free the Bears many bear are safe and happy in their natural habitat, but many are slowly dying. Reasons such as pollution, global warming, bear bile (Bile bear taken to small prisons and their digestive juice taken out, killing the bear, and sold for common Chinese medicine). This needs to be stopped. Today.

Once again thank you for taking time to read my blog. I  hope you now know more about my charity.