Amelia is only a short time here in Switzerland. The international animal welfare organisation FOUR PAWS successfully transferred her and another bear with the name Meimo, a few months ago to Arosa Bear Sanctuary. This has been two of the last “restaurant bears” from Albania. The two 13-year-old bears spent their lives in a private mini zoo near a restaurant in Albania and have been fed with beer and left over fast food, and their paws never touched grass before. After they have been transferred to transport boxes the tiny enclosure in which they lived was immediately destroyed. The restaurant owner does not want to keep any more animals because of the inappropriate conditions.
Those bears and another one called Napa (a former circus bear) live now a happy life in this big sanctuary.
We hiked in the Arosa region today, and it as for sure highlight, to get a glimpse of their new life.
