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Jan

Two Orphaned Black Bear Cubs Rescued in Karbi Anglong and Brought to CWRC

Assam, CWRC, Karbi Anglong, Asiatic Black Bear, Bear Cubs, Wild Rescue and Rehabilitation

CWRC, Assam, January 25, 2018: Two Asiatic black bear cubs, between one and two months old, were rescued and brought to CWRC (the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation, IFAW-WTI and the Assam Forest Department’s wildlife rescue, treatment and rehabilitation facility near Kaziranga National Park) on January 22.

Acting on a tip from local sources, a team of frontline forest staff confiscated the cubs from a house in Dokmoka.

Acting on a tip from local sources, a team of frontline staff from the Karbi Anglong Forest Department confiscated the cubs from a house in Dokmoka. The cubs had apparently been kept in the house for a week; it is surmised that villagers found them while moving through the nearby forest and brought them home to keep as pets.

A Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) team led by CWRC veterinarian Dr Samshul Ali went to the village and received the cubs from the forest department. “The cubs, a male and a female weighing 1.5 kg and 1.4 kg respectively, seem to be in good health – despite the fact that they were given human food in captivity. They will be put through a disease screening and intensive health examination during the initial period of quarantine and stabilisation. They will then be hand-raised with the eventual aim of rehabilitation into the wild.”

Assam, CWRC, Karbi Anglong, Asiatic Black Bear, Bear Cubs, Wild Rescue and Rehabilitation


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