Photo of bears in the wild co Jim Robertson
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Anja Heister, anja@idausa.org, 406-544-5727
In Defense Of Animals Offers $1,500 Reward In Grizzly Bear Killing
Momma grizzly bear with three young cubs shot and killed; cubs doomed to a life of captivity
Ovando, Mont. (November 14, 2013) In Defense of Animals (IDA), an international animal rights and protection organization, has offered a reward of $1500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who callously killed a grizzly bear mother of three cubs, leaving them orphaned.
The mother grizzly bear was found Sunday, November 3, killed by a single gunshot wound, approximately three and a half miles northeast of the rural community of Ovando. While one cub escaped, officials with Montana’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) caught two of the mother’s female cubs, who are currently being held at the state-owned Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Helena, Mont.
Adding insult to injury, Chris Servheen, Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator with the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), has decided to send the two bear cubs to lifelong imprisonment at the Bronx Zoo in New York.
“If they haven’t been causing problems with people, these cubs should be released back into the wild,” said renowned biologist and bear specialist, Dr. Lynn Rogers with the Wildlife Research Institute in Ely, Minn.
“In 2005, two grizzly bear cubs were sent to the Washington Park Zoo in Michigan City, Indiana, after their mother had been killed by FWP,” said IDA’s Director of the Wild and Free-Habitats Campaign and Montana resident, Anja Heister. She added, “the cubs can now be seen relentlessly walking in circles in their small enclosure. These cubs have lost everything, their mother, their freedom and dignity, and their health. Demoted to objects of entertainment, they have been suffering from captive psychosis, abnormal behavior indicative of significant mental suffering.”
“Whoever killed this grizzly bear has to be held accountable for robbing an entire family of grizzlies of their lives – causing the death of a grizzly mother, and sending two innocent cubs into life-long captivity, while likely causing great trauma to the cub who escaped,” said Heister.
Anyone with information on this incident is encouraged to call 1-800-TIP-MONT ( 1-800-847-6668 ). Callers can remain anonymous.
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I hope they get caught!!
Sad they are given the ok to kill knowing cubs exist. Shouldn’t happen anyway, but certainly not during these times when they have babies.
The same people that would poach a mother grizzly with cubs is the same type of bloodthirsty degenerate that would hunt and kill wolves. They all fall under the ” slob hunter” category…..absolutely no sense of ethics, decency, or stewardship…..there are thousands of these fake sportsmen in the NRM and the Great Lakes
This makes me sick. What is wrong with humans? Leave these beautiful animals alone. So many are being killed for no reason. Let them live their lives in piece. If a grizzly is to close call authorities so they can handle it. I feel so sorry for the babies that were left behind. The 2 going to a zoo in horrible, they should be taken care of and released and that poor baby left in the woods all alone won’t make it. Something will kill it. All because of a human. Wake up people, we are losing our most precious animals to these crazy people.
This happened around Ovando, Montana! How disgusting an act this was by some gun happy idiot! I hope the person or persons involved get caught, and get prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Humans are the worst species. Those poor cubs, would the murderer do the same to a human mum? Man belongs to the earth, the earth does not belong to man.
Maybe this official needs to go see the life he is giving them — a trip to that zoo to see the cubs previously sent – he probably thinks without the mother to teach them they will not have any chance in the wild but they must have rehabbers in Montana
It has to stop
This criminal must be caught and face the full force of the law. Tougher laws are mandatory to deter such senseless cruelty. Such sickening situations are unacceptable just because of individuals vileness.
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