A desperate Situation for orphaned and injured bears in Bosnia - we urgently need help

We love Bosnian Bears

 

Please help us create a rehabilitation area so that no more bears have to be euthanized

 

This year there were 2 cases involving road traffic accidents where a mother bear was killed. In both cases there were 2 surviving bear cubs.

 

Currently there is no infrastructure set up in Bosnia to cater for situations like this and what is typical is that the local hunting association will step in and euthanise the bear cubs. Nuisance bears also unofficially suffer this fate.

 

When approaching all of the relevant Bosnian agencies they were very supportive of our project as we will aim to provide a solution for situations involving orphaned bears and all other injured wildlife.

 

Having got the relevant permissions, it is now our job to build the facilities that will allow us to safely deliver on our mission statement for Bosnian wildlife and bears in particular.

 

But we need your help!

 

We are primarily raising money to securely fence in a large area of state forest land that has been offered by the local mayor to the charity. The land is immediately adjacent to the current Biokovina Wild location and is remote enough that we will be able to create an environment where bears can be rehabilitated with the minimum involvement from people thereby increasing the chances of being able to successfully release them back into the wild.

 

In addition to that we also need to build a trailer based humane bear trap to assist with safely rescuing and transporting bears and we need to invest in tranquiliser equipment.

 

When bears come into close contact with people it’s not good for the bear or for people. We also want to build facilities that will allow us to temporarily house “nuisance” bears for relocation to more remote areas of Bosnia as well as rescue and release orphans and bears who have suffered other injuries.