September 2016 – SAD NEWS: BALU IS DISAPPEARED!
After months of appeals and campaining, the bear trapped in a cage in the restaurant Kodra e Kuajve in Durres, is disappeared as you can see from the empty cage.
Balu (known as well as Poku) was a 4 years old bear, male. He was sold from a poacher to the owner of the restaurant and now, after months of actions he’s been moved.
It is the sad destiny of many bears in captivity. When the media pressure become to high the bears often disappear.
It’s essential to keep high the international pressure on the restaurant and on the Government, OIPA will keep searching for Balu.
OIPA will keep asking to the owner of the restaurant what is happened to the animal.
BROWN BEARS IN ALBANIA
The bear populations in Albania and in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are of significant biological and genetic value, because they form the connecting populations between the brown bear populations in Croatia and Slovenia in the North and the endangered brown bear population of Greece. Data on the numbers and distribution of these populations are therefore of paramount importance for the conservation of the bear population in South-East Europe.
In Albania, the current estimation of the bear population is about 250 individuals; the species has been steadily declining in the last 20 years, and the current population size estimate is the lowest ever. The species is legally protected in Albania, however, there is no management plan or are implementing a national strategy for the conservation of the species, and bear populations in both countries are not being systematically monitored. Consequently, there is a serious lack of information on their general status and distribution, and the population numbers mentioned above are merely educated assumptions.
Many bears are still kept by Albanian citizens in private houses, restaurants and tourist locations.
In the video the bear, few months ago.
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