Heralding the arrival of spring, the brown bears at Kent’s Wildwood Trust have emerged from 4 months of hibernation and returned back into their huge 1.5-acre woodland home. A huge occasion for the wildlife conservation charity, the release would usually be attended by hundreds of visitors who enter a raffle for the chance to feed […]
Hamish the polar bear enjoyed the recent snowfall at his Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) Highland Wildlife Park home this week. The wildlife conservation charity looks after a number of cold-weather adapted and native animals within 105 hectares at the Cairngorms National Park, including snow leopard, Amur tiger, Japanese macaque, European bison, and Scottish […]
Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster is home to the only polar bears in England. Last week, 12 year old Rasputin travelled from Antibes in France where he had been living since 2010 to his new home at the Park’s Project Polar reserves. The European Endangered Species Programme (EEP) recommended the move after Rasputin’s mate Flocke gave […]
This Saturday 18th January is Winnie-the-Pooh Day and to celebrate their most famous resident ZSL London Zoo is offering free entry to all kids who bring their own bear along* First published in October 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh was named after a Canadian black bear called Winnie, who was much loved by author A. A. Milne’s son […]
A new multi-million-pound woodland exhibit has opened at Wild Place Project near Bristol. Bear Wood – the largest project of its kind in the UK – is home to brown bears, wolves, lynx and wolverine, who all coexist in ancient woodland together, just as they would have done thousands of years ago. Entering Bear Wood […]
Biosphere Expeditions offer citizen science wildlife conservation holidays to ordinary people wishing to make a positive difference, working hands-on as environmental volunteers. The non-profit organisation recently added a new expedition to their list of international adventures with a trip to mystical Transylvania, without the vampires. Launching in September 2019 the 8 day expedition will take you […]
An ambitious project to return bears to ancient woods on the outskirts of Bristol has been given the go ahead by South Gloucestershire planners. The £5 million scheme at Wild Place Project, named Bear Wood, is likely to open next summer and will house brown bears, lynx, wolves and wolverine in the woodlands for the […]