The helpers who work at Kosovo’s Bear Sanctuary Prishtina don’t usually make contact or interact with wild bears – but this story shows how they are willing break their rules for the safety of the animals they love.
The sanctuary specialises in ‘restaurant bears’ – a clan of 15 brown bears who had been kept in little cages outside restaurants to attract customers.
However in 2010, the government rightly made this practice illegal – meaning the sanctuary was created to provide long term care for the mistreated bears.
The sanctuary’s comfort zone was pressured last week, after they got a call from police officers claiming they had noticed a wild bear not moving in an area which was dense with bushes.
