In Laos, animal rights activists have rescued sixteen malnourished bear cubs of an endangered species from a house. A total of 17 black bears were found this week in a house in Vientiane, the capital of the landlocked Southeast Asian country.
One of the bear cubs was already dead. “When we arrived at the house, there were bear cubs everywhere,” said Fatong Yang of conservation organization Free The Bears.
The bear cubs were taken to the Luang Prabang Wildlife Sanctuary, where they were bottle-fed and closely monitored. The group is “glad that 16 of the 17 are still alive and given a second chance at a life without fear and suffering.”
Mother bears probably killed by poachers
According to the organization, the rescued animals included ten males and six females. According to information, the bear cubs weigh between 1.3 and four kilos and are probably two to four months old.
“Such small young animals are extremely vulnerable,” Fatong explains. “In the wild, their mothers would never leave them alone and we suspect their mothers were killed by poachers.”
According to Free The Bears, police were called to the house after neighbors heard the screams of one of the bears. According to the group, a Laotian national has been taken into custody as police continue to search for the property’s owner.
Asian black bears are also called moon bears because they have a white, crescent-shaped fur pattern on their chest fur. They are classified as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Source: Krone
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