War-traumatized Ukrainian bear to be adopted by Scottish zoo

CNN ^ | September 11, 2023 | Issy Ronald

[SJackson]

The Five Sisters Zoo in Scotland is set to adopt Yampil, an Asiatic black bear rescued from an abandoned zoo in Ukraine.

An Asiatic black bear, which endured severe trauma in a zoo in Russian-occupied Ukraine, is set to be adopted by a zoo in Scotland.

In October 2022, according to posts on a Ukrainian rescue center’s social media, Ukrainian soldiers entered the abandoned zoo in the village of Yampil, Donetsk, which had been under Russian occupation. They found that almost all of the 200 animals at the zoo had been killed.

Yampil is recovering at a wildlife-rescue center in Belgium

A 12-year-old bear was one of the few left alive. He, too, was badly injured – he had been concussed when a shell had exploded near his cage and was just days away from dying, according to a statement released by the Five Sisters Zoo in Scotland.

Now, Yampil – named after the village where he was found – will get a new start in life as he is set to be adopted by the Scottish zoo, after a rescue operation that has so far taken him across the European continent from Ukraine to Poland to Belgium.

He will head to his new home, 20 miles west of the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, early next year.

[SJackson]

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[PGR88]

Looks more like climate-change trauma to me

[Old Grumpy]

So happy this bear will get another chance for a good life. So often zoos are forgotten during wars. Sad.