{"id":11346,"date":"2021-02-25T05:58:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T05:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/?p=11346"},"modified":"2023-10-27T01:45:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T21:45:06","slug":"gspsa-grant-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gspsa.org.ge\/en\/gspsa-grant-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"GSPSA has decided to provide financial assistance to the 'Zoological Centre' for the survival and well-being of Bear Cubs."},"content":{"rendered":"

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GSPSA provided financial assistance to the NNLE \"Zoological Center\" for the survival of the bear cubs and their well-being.<\/p>\n

On February 23, 2021, Teimuraz Tsikoridze, Chairman of the \u201cGeorgian Society for the Protection and Safety of Animals\u201d - GSPSA, and Soso Jikurishvili, Founder of the NNLE \u201cZoological Center\u201d, signed an agreement on the issuance, receipt, and use of a grant. Under the agreement, GSPSA, as a donor organization, provided targeted financial assistance of GEL 5,000 to the NNLE \u201cZoological Center\u201d for the construction of an aviary for 150.00 sq.m. It was the first time the Zoological Center received such targeted funding to save the bears.<\/p>\n

On February 3, 2021, two bear cubs, not older than 3 months, were found by the local population in the Sabaduri forest on the territory of Mtskheta municipality. Bears do not naturally inhabit the forest of Sabaduri. The discovery of these cubs without their bear mother confirms that a bear mother had been killed by a poacher in another area while the cubs were abducted. Apparently, the poacher could not sell the decapitated cubs and, in order to cover the evidence, let them go to the \"Bear shelter\" in the Sabaduri forest.<\/p>\n

The founder of the \"Zoological Center\" took the cubs to the shelter, but it became necessary to arrange an appropriate area for the cubs, an aviary, and a nest. Since the \u201cBears Shelter\u201d has only limited and volatile funding raised by donations, GSPSA\u00a0 decided to provide financial assistance to the partner organization to house and rescue these cubs. Unfortunately, the cubs will have to spend their whole lives in captivity in the shelter.<\/p>\n