Bear Of The Month: Odom!
Starved, abused and forced to live the agonising life of a dancing bear, Odom was confined to a life of […]
Starved, abused and forced to live the agonising life of a dancing bear, Odom was confined to a life of […]
A recent trend in wildlife poaching seems to be the use of bombs and explosives concealed in food bait to
Our bear keepers at the Agra Bear Rescue Facility don’t just have the exceptionally important job of caring for our
July 2006 signalled the start of a torrid monsoon at the Agra Bear Rescue Facility, and a new life for
Sometimes it is difficult to decide whether Manali is more adorable or naughty. Then we realize that it is her
Spread across 467 sq kms of undulating plains and deciduous forests, the Sanjay-Dubri National Park located in Sidhi district of
It has been many years since we welcomed Goldie into the Agra Bear Rescue Centre. He was rescued from a
Rescued as a badly wounded and terrified cub from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, Rose has come a long way over
When rescuing ‘Dancing Bears’ from Kalandars, one of the most heartbreaking things was to find young cubs as captives. Suri
Valmiki bear was rescued from the Indo-Nepal border in 2010. His Kalandar owners were intercepted at the border just as
A victim of man-animal conflict, four year old Hamsi was rescued from a village in Bandipur, Karnataka in February 2015.
The distressed cries of an animal pierced through the stillness of the forest in the early hours of the morning,
Approaching Elvis’ enclosure at the Agra Bear Rescue Facility, you are greeted by his nose, reaching out towards you, twitching
Although their painful years as ‘dancing’ bears are long behind them, the rescued sloth bears at our rescue centres still
As the early rays of the sun make their way through the thick canopy of trees at the Van Vihar
Akki is a male sloth bear who spent the first five years of his life as an oppressed ‘dancing bear’
Four years old and nearly half the weight he should have been, Bhalu (whose name means ‘bear’ in Hindi) spent
Wildlife SOS’ anti-poaching unit, ForestWatch, rescued a female sloth bear from Jharkhand, now named ‘Suma’ with the help of the
11 year old Rengu is one of the most simple and quiet bears at the Agra Bear Rescue Facility (ABRF).
“What is a sloth bear?” This question baffled several people who were interviewed across three of India’s major cities —