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Our Vision: To Unlock The Cage Of Darkness

Free The Bears Fund Inc. - PROJECT INDIA

This was a bears fate.....
Thanks to our kind supporters, Free The Bears Fund has rescued over 400 bears off the streets of India. Project India has been so successful that we are now in the process of developing 145 acres to take the remaining bears off the roads of India, thus ending the 'dancing' bear trade and saving a most endangered species from extinction.

To read more about this wonderful, life-changing project, please see our PROJECT INDIA page.

There is a bear in a small cage. Feel his confusion, sadness and despair.

There are people who live in a country with no welfare system, the only food, shelter and income, that which they provide for themselves. These people too are in a cage: a cage constructed from poverty.

There are people thousands of miles away who feel anger and despair when they think of captive bears, and the countries that exploit their wildlife. Counter productive feelings that slowly form into the bars of a cage, which holds both heart, and mind prisoner.

In a small area in Asia people work to save bears. Once poachers, they have been given the opportunity to protect the very animals they once sought to capture. Such projects radiate hope for the future: hope for sustainability of both wildlife and community alike. Hope, which allows us to escape that first cage: that of mental despair.

In doing so we can approach the second cage, insert the key and release the village from its cage of poverty. That which once held the desperate and poor is removed to reveal people employed and able to feed their families, functioning as a proud, self-respecting part of the community.

Take the hand of the local villager and together approach the third cage, that which holds the bear. As he is liberated see the bear stretch and run: safe and protected from now on.

Free the Bears Fund challenges you to liberate your mind, to explore sustainable alternatives towards the illegal wildlife trade and treat with compassion those, who by the very situation of their birth, find themselves in an impoverished and desperate situation.

Join us as we implement proactive conservation initiatives, which aim to protect, preserve and enrich the lives not only of bears, but those who live alongside them. By combining compassion for our fellow man with a belief in the dignity and beauty of nature, Free the Bears Fund knows that this approach is the key to the future!

Join us as we use this key to Unlock the Cage of Darkness....

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Bear of the Month
April 2008

Pinky was rescued from her life as a 'dancing' bear in December 2002. Read all about Pinky here.

NEW!!
Latest Eco Tour
Helen Cracknell of Free The Bears Fund is taking a wonderful and exciting tour to Cambodia and Laos. See rescued bears now living in peace. More info here: Eco Tour Cambodia and Laos.

NEW!!
NEWS FLASH
FTB have just sent $358,000 to Wildlife SOS, India to cover the cost of night dens, construction of the new land and bear rescues – we are bringing the 'dancing bear' trade to an end!

NEW!!
Check out Rove at our bear sanctuary

Rove McManus - New Member

Special Notice
From 19/08/04 Free The Bears Fund is a TAX DEDUCTIBLE Charity. All donations over $2 are tax deductible.

 

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