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Nepal's last dancing bears rescued by wildlife groups in dramatic overnight raid 
  
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 A dramatic rescue of two sloth bears was carried out overnight by the Jane Goodall Institute of Nepal, World Animal Protection and Nepali police. 
  
 Key points: The once prevalent practice has almost been eradicated by wildlife groups 
  
 To control the bears, hot needles are used to pierce the nose and thick ropes are inserted 
  
 An estimated 22,000 bears are caged in bear bile farms in Asia 
  
 World Animal Protection said these are the last two known illegal dancing bears in Nepal. 
  
 "We are thrilled that the last two … dancing bears have been rescued from their lifetime of suffering," said Manoj Gautam of the Jane Goodall Institute of Nepal. 
  
 "After a year of tracking them, using our own intelligence and in cooperation with local police, our hard effort and dedication has helped to bring an end to this illegal tradition in Nepal." 
  
 The bears — 19-year-old male Rangila and Sridevi, a 17-year-old female — were found in a distressed state and showed signs of psychological trauma such as cowering, pacing and paw sucking, the animal protection group said. 
  
 The bears were taken to Amlekhgunj Forest and Wildlife Reserve for treatment. 
  
 The bears were located by tracking the owners' mobile phones. 
  
 Mary Hutton, founder of Australian based Free the Bears, described the trade in dancing bears as a "cruel" and "appalling business". 
  
 "They are captured as cubs — the mother is usually killed to get to them — and then they are conditioned to behave themselves and obey," Ms Hutton said. 
  
 A hot needle is used to pierce the cubs' nose and rope is threaded through and used to control them, she said, adding that the holes are so large and so much pressure is applied from the thick ropes that they never fully heal. 
  
 Through punishment and cruelty — which can include dragging the bears onto hot coals — they are trained to dance for tourists who pay a small fee for the entertainment, Ms Sutton said. 
  
 Ms Hutton explained that bear owners are mostly living in poverty themselves, barely able to feed their own children, so the bears are usually fed as little as a few pieces of bread a day. 
  
 But the good news is dancing bears are almost a thing of the past. 
  
 Free the Bears were fundamental in wiping out bear dancing in India in a 15-year campaign that saw about 600 bears rescued. 
  
 World Animal Protection have worked with local partners to eradicate the practice in Greece, Turkey and elsewhere. 
  
 But while significant gains have been made to end bear dancing, there are still an estimated 22,000 Asian black bears caged in bile farms, where bile is milked from their gallbladder through a permanent hole. 
  
 Other threats to all bear species include poaching, wildlife traps and habitation destruction. 
  
 "It's extremely distressing to see animals being stolen from the wild and the sad reality is there are more wild animals suffering across the world, purely for the entertainment of tourists," said Neil D'Cruze, Wildlife Technical Expert for World Animal Protection. 
  
 "I am pleased that for these two sloth bears at least; a happy ending is finally in sight." 
  
 Topics: conservation, endangered-and-protected-species, animals, human-interest, nepal, asia 
  
 First posted ||||| Bear rescue: We just saved Nepal’s last two ‘dancing bears’ 
  
 Working with the Jane Goodall Institute of Nepal and Nepali police, we rescued two tortured sloth bears, Rangila and Sridevi, on Tuesday night (19 December). They’re now on their way to Parsa National Park in Nepal, where they’ll be free from suffering 
  
 These two bears are the last known Nepali-owned, illegal ‘dancing bears’. Rangila is a 19-year-old male and Sridevi is a 17-year-old female. They were sold to their owner to be used as dancing bears, and forced to entertain crowds of people. Bear dancing is a cruel and illegal practice. 
  
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 Bears like Rangila and Sridevi are snatched from their mothers at an early age and forced to perform. 
  
 Painful ropes control the bears 
  
 Their owner had pierced their noses with a burning hot rod and shoved a rope through it so he could control them. 
  
 Harsh training methods are used on dancing bears to make them submissive enough to perform to tourists. 
  
 From horror to safety 
  
 With the help of local police, the bears were found in Iharbari, Nepal by tracking the owner’s mobile phone. The rescue was emotional for all involved. The bears were extremely distressed and showed signs of psychological trauma such as cowering, pacing and paw sucking. 
  
 The bears are now on their way to be placed in the temporary care of Parsa National Park in Nepal. 
  
 We’re proud to have made such an incredible rescue – this is an incredible way to end 2017. 
  
 Nepal’s bear dancing trade is over 
  
 This is not the first time an entire country’s use of bears for entertainment has been eradicated. 
  
 We have a 20-year history of working with local partners to stop this awfully cruel practice, and have ended it in Greece, Turkey and India. We’re also close to phasing out bear baiting in Pakistan. 
  
 Neil D’Cruze, our wildlife expert, said: "Rangira and Sridvei have suffered for too long in captivity since they were poached from the wild." 
  
 Manoj Gautam, Jane Goodall Institute of Nepal, said: "We are thrilled that the last two known Nepali dancing bears have been rescued from their lifetime of suffering." 
  
 Our work protecting bears is not done 
  
 The suffering of bears in Asia is still not over. We work to end the exploitation of bears used for the horrific blood sport of bear-baiting. 
  
 We’re also working to end the cruel and unnecessary bear bile industry, in which approximately 22,000 Asiatic black bears are stuck in tiny cages. These captive animals have permanent holes in their stomach and are constantly milked for their bile. 
  
 Please share this story with your friends on social media, and celebrate Rangila and Sridev’s incredible rescue. ||||| The longtime tradition of bear dancing, derided for its cruel training methods, is coming to an end in Nepal. 
  
 Nepalese law enforcement, with the help of the Jane Goodall Institute Nepal and the London-based nonprofit World Animal Protection, recently removed two sloth bears named Rangeela and Sridevi from their handlers, Mohammad Salman and Mohammad Momtaz, members of the semi-nomadic Nat community that traditionally made a living with street performances. 
  
 “Being there in person to help rescue the last known dancing bears in Nepal was surreal,” says Neil D’Cruze, global wildlife adviser at World Animal Protection. 
  
 “We know that Rangeela and Sridevi were suffering in captivity since they [were] poached from the wild and their muzzles were pierced with hot iron rods.” 
  
 Training bears of various species to dance for a paying audience was popular in the Middle Ages throughout Europe and Asia, and it remained common in Eastern Europe and Asia until the late 20th century, according to World Animal Protection. 
  
 Due to concerted efforts by animal welfare groups to rescue the bears and help their owners transition to new livelihoods, the practice has been coming to an end. 
  
 Countries including Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, India, Serbia, Turkey, and now Nepal are believed to no longer have dancing bears, but the practice continues in Pakistan. 
  
 “The sad reality is there are more wild animals suffering across the world just to entertain people,” says Manoj Gautam, the executive director of Jane Goodall Institute Nepal. “However, for these two sloth bears at least, a happy ending is finally in sight.” 
  
 Other organizations applaud the rescue. "The importance of this recent rescue, along with almost every bear rescue in 2017, is that these cruel animal practices, hidden behind the curtain of culture, are no longer accepted in a contemporary society," says Claire LaFrance, head of communications for the nonprofit Four Paws U.S., which itself has helped end bear dancing in several countries. "Countries like India, Nepal and Vietnam, who continuously strive for modernity, and to be taken seriously on a global scale, must end these backwards practices that exploit animals for profit." 
  
 TRAINING BEARS 
  
 Performing bears in Nepal are often poached from the wild and sold on the black market. In some cases, they’re taken as cubs—their mothers killed for the medicinal bile in their gall bladders or for their paws, which are served in an expensive soup or as traditional medicine. 
  
 A cub is typically subdued and trained through cruel methods. Its muzzle is pierced and a rope or ring is run through the hole to control the bear. Sometimes canines are pulled or filed down and the claws removed to prevent injury to the owner. 
  
 THE FIGHT TO STOP ILLEGAL BEAR TRAFFICKING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA The population of captive animals on "bear farms" in Laos has been increasing significantly in recent years, despite laws to protect the bears. Read more about bear farms in Laos on National Geographic's Wildlife Watch. 
  
 Sloth bears are known to be aggressive, D'Cruze says, so forcing them into submission is a traumatizing process that often involves beating the bear with a stick. 
  
 “There’s a constant use of fear and pain and aggression toward the animals,” says Gautam. 
  
 Once trained, the bear is taken onto the street to perform for money. 
  
 "Dancing bears, along with bears used as tourist attractions, for selfies, or near restaurants, suffer immensely," says LeFrance of Four Paws. "In our work with large animals in captivity, we have witnessed private citizens generally lack the skills and knowledge to provide a species-appropriate home for a complex animal such as a bear." 
  
 THE RESCUE 
  
 D’Cruze and Gautam had been following these bears and their owners for more than a year, waiting for the right time to mount a rescue. The plan was to approach the owners and convince them to give up the bears. But when Gautam and D’Cruze arrived at the bears’ last known location in remote town border town, they were nowhere to be found. 
  
 “In the end, we got lucky,” says Gautam. “A high-tech team of police on the ground were able to trace the phone numbers of the bear owners.” 
  
 The police confiscated the bears in the town of Iharbari, in southeastern Nepal, and apprehended four people, bringing them all to the district station. There will be no fines or arrests for those involved, but the bears’ owners were given a stern warning, according to Gautam, who witnessed the men's apprehension and its aftermath. 
  
 The bears were traumatized but in decent health, given the fact that they’d only been eating milk and rice for years. 
  
 “You could clearly see the stereotypic behavior, their psychological trauma. They were sucking their paws, jump up and down on benches,” Gautam says. 
  
 Their teeth had been removed, which is common for dancing bears, but their claws were still intact. 
  
 The bears are now awaiting transfer to a sanctuary, likely one in India. In the meantime, they’re living at a national park in Nepal—where two of the former owners have been hired to help care for them temporarily. 
  
 Part of ending bear dancing is providing economic opportunities for the people who run the circuses—which is why the two men were given temporary jobs. 
  
 The former owners “do understand there wasn’t much longevity left to this profession,” claims Gautam. 
  
 According to Gautam, the men also signed legal documents that say if they’re ever again found with a bear, the punishment will be much harsher. |||||

It's going to be a happy new year for Rangeela and Sridevi: A wildlife group says it has rescued the sloth bears from owners in Nepal who forced them to dance to entertain crowds, National Geographic reports. The bears were swiped from the wild at a young age and their owners "had pierced their noses with a burning hot rod and shoved a rope through it so he could control them," World Animal Protection says. The group says the bears are believed to have been the last two dancing bears in Nepal, which officially banned the practice 40 years ago. Police confiscated the bears after the owners were tracked down in a remote village. The animals are now at a national park in Nepal and will be given a permanent home at a wildlife sanctuary next year. The rescued sloth bears, 15 and 17 years old, showed signs of trauma including cowering and paw-sucking, wildlife officials say. Mary Hutton, founder of the Free the Bears group, tells the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that dancing bears are generally kept in "appalling" conditions, often by owners who can't afford to feed them more than a few pieces of bread a day. The group says it has helped end the practice in several other countries, including India, where more than 600 bears were freed during a 15-year campaign. Wildlife protection groups say a major part of the effort is finding new employment for the owners of dancing bears, which is why two of the owners in Nepal were given temporary jobs helping to look after the animals instead of being charged or fined.