Timka & Alisa - Khmelnytski City Zoo. You may remember last
year we removed 2 Brown bears from the Khmelnytski City Zoo in Ukraine.
After fighting for 2 years we eventually were able to get Alisa 27 and Timka 20, 2 Eurasian Brown bears into our care.These 2 bears had languished in a concrete and steel city zoo their whole lives. Alisa is blind and was used as a breeding station. There were 3 bears at this zoo prior to us hearing about their plight
but Timka in a fit of rage killed the other male in front of a crowd zoo
visitors. Many people say he is an aggressive bear and very dangerous.
We work with many bears and all bears are dangerous. We think it was the
boredom and frustration of them being locked up like that for years
added with the screaming kids that visit these zoos that set him off. We
now spend quite a bit of time with him at our holding facility where
these are no visitors at all and he has a really nice nature and is
calm.
In 2019 we relocated 2 bears, sisters Masha and Lora
to AMP Libearty - Bear Sanctuary in Romania and they have agreed once
again to take Alisa and Timka to their sanctuary. With Alisa being blind
she will need a purpose built enclosure but Libearty are completely
geared up and professional to give her the best life possible.
We are
now prepping them both for their relocation to Romania. They have been
vaccinated, ID chipped and because of EU regulations we completed their
Rabies blood-work and all is good. Now we wait for CITES Permits
and the travel bans to be lifted and we can be on our way as soon as we
have the necessary funding to pay for the relocation. Its not very far, a
2 day drive including clearing customs at the Romanian/Ukrainian border
but it is an expensive exercise. The transport costs alone are nearly
€6000 Euros and this excludes the daily feeding and care for them.
WILL YOU HELP US to get them to Romania where they will be cared for by a very special group of people.
