A FAMILY of Ukraine Zoo bears were released into their new home built by the Lawrence Anthony Earth Organisation Ukraine this month after 27 years in a confined Soviet-era cage.
The enduring of cold rusty steel floors and long-lone hours of pacing in a 3m by 6m cage appear to have finally ended for the aging Zhora, the oldest bear resident of a small island zoo in Kherson, Ukraine on the Dnieper River.
He and his family will have placed their paws on the earth for the first time in decades and as for his twin cubs, this is a first time ever getting to frolic in a water pool, feel the earth and dig.
The bears new home represents a 600% increase in space and it is the very first time the family will be safe and secure. The project falls under the Wildlife in War Zones Projects.
As corruption and conflict continue to threaten the people of the Ukraine and Ukraine troops prepare their defenses to Russian troops, the impact on tens of thousands of animals and wildlife residing in the region near Mariupol continues too.
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