Since FOUR PAWS' goal is to help bears live free of suffering, our team was ready to assist. Ideally, the rescue would have taken place in the Spring when weather conditions improved, but the rescue was expedited after FOUR PAWS learned the restaurant owner was adamant about no longer keeping any more animals because of the inappropriate conditions. The transport began on the morning of January 29th with the anaesthetization of the bears so they could be medically examined and loaded into transport crates. Meimo and Amelia, the names given to the bears when they arrived at the bear sanctuary, were accompanied by a team consisting of FOUR PAWS employees, representatives from Arosa Bear Sanctuary, the Arosa Mountain Railways, and veterinarian Dr Frank Göritz from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW). After four days and a 1,513 mile journey through five countries, the two bears arrived safely in Arosa Bear Sanctuary. FOUR PAWS has successfully transferred two of the last restaurant bears from Albania to Arosa Bear Sanctuary in Switzerland.īefore the bears' arrival to their forever home, the two 13-year-old bears spent their lives in a private mini zoo near a restaurant in Albania.
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