Articles

Free The Bears Fund's team in Lao PDR has recently carried out rescues of two bears caught in snares within the country's National Protected Areas.  Read all about these rescues in the following reports:

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Please click the links to view the articles from Veterinary Nursing Times, and Veterinary Nursing Journal New Zealand about our Cambodian Bear Sanctuary
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Please follow the link below to view an Interim Report of the activities carried out by the Kouprey Express Project with funding from Free the Bears Fund.

Kouprey Express Interim Report
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Please follow the links below to view articles from our Research Associate - Lorraine Scotson - on Bear Status Reports for Lao PDR & Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam.

Nam Et Phou Louey National Protected Area (Lao PDR) - Bear Status Report in English

Nam Et Phou Louey National Protected Area (Lao PDR) - Bear Status Report in Lao

Cat Tien National Park (Vietnam) - Bear Status Report in English

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Emergency Evacuation of 22 Rescued Dancing Bears due to Maoist threats – the journey to safety from West Bengal to Bannerghatta. 

Please click here to read this story.

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Recently Free the Bears Fund supporter Tom Boyle has recently raised over $5000 for Free the Bears Fund by walking around Spain. Click here to read his amazing story.
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Staff at Cambodia recently organised an expert Wildlife/Zoo Veterinary team from the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland to spend 8 days at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center to carry out an intensive training period for local vets involved in the care of rescued bears at our sanctuaries in Cambodia and Vietnam. Many topics of bear veterinary management were covered allowing our vets to gain valuable knowledge and practical skills while assisting the expert team in carrying out a range of procedures.

Please click here to read the report.







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Wildlife trade comes under the spotlight in Lao P.D.R.

Submitted by Matt Hunt, Free the Bears Fund. 

Please click here to read the report.