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prevent the bears from digging their way out side the enclosure. � The enclosure shall be in place before the bears are moved to the field(refer illustration on the next page). 1.5.4 Training and capacity building of CBRC personnel in Russia There has been a constant exchange of project personnel between CBRC and OBRP since 2000 (Fig 1.9). As part of the staff exchange program between CBRC, Wildlife Trust of India and OBRP, International Fund for Animal Welfare, a team of the CBRC’s project personnel made a study tour to OBRP in Bubonitsy, Russia in April 2005. The three member team included the Project Leader and the Deputy Chief Wildlife Warden of Arunachal Pradesh Mr. C. Loma, the then Regional Manager Dr. Murali Pai and the CBRC veterinarian Dr. Prasanta Kumar Boro. The team members were apprised of the strict hands-off approach the OBRP personnel follow while rehabilitating European brown bears. Unlike at CBRC, brown bear cubs at OBRP are released at their young age of seven months when they are saidtoattainselfsufficiency.Theteamtookpartin the routine husbandry practices, veterinary care, release site selection exercises and post-release monitoring of soft released bears in Bubonitsy (Fig 1.9). The study was of immense use to the team members in learning how bear cubs are rehabilitated in temperate counties and how differentaretheirconditionswhencomparedtothe conditions at CBRC. A detailed report of the training program in Russia has been given in Appendix II. 1.5.5 First International workshop on bear rehabilitation in Russia International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) organized the first international workshop on “Bear Species Rehabilitation, Release and Monitoring” in Russia in Tver Region at the Orphan Bear Rehabilitation Project (OBRP) in Bubonitsy, Tver Region, Russia. The aim of the workshop was to enable all participants share and contribute their knowledge, experience and expertise on the critical components of bear rehabilitation, so that the best practices in bear rehabilitation could be documented and made available to all rehabilitators. Such an information sharing would enhance the survival of released bears and minimize the risk of released bears coming into conflict with people. The workshop attracted 42 participants from different parts of the world, working on five species of bears, namely the European brown, American black, Asiatic black, Andean spectacled and the Malayan sun bear. The workshop was an ideal platform for CBRC
Fig 1.9a. WTI Executive Director project personnel to present their case and also learn a few lessons from bear rehabilitators across the world. Dr. N.V.K. Ashraf, the Principal Investigator of the CBRC project, attended the celebrations and presented on the Asiatic black bear rehabilitation in Arunachal Pradesh as a case study on bear rehabilitation in tropics. Overall, there was one presentation each on the rehabilitation of sun bear, polar bear and spectacled bear, whereas the European brown bear, American black bear and the Asiatic black bear dominated the proceedings with three or more presentations each. A comprehensive report on the workshop proceedings have been given as Appendix III. Fig 1.9b. CBRC Project Leader (left) and Wild Rescue program Director (right) during their visits to OBRP, Russia.
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Page 4 and 5: CONTENTS PREFACE 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Page 6 and 7: PREFACE Bears have been rehabilitat
Page 8 and 9: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Rapid population
Page 10 and 11: initiative of the Deputy Chief Wild
Page 12 and 13: Fig 1.2. CBRC being inaugurated by
Page 14 and 15: Fig1.5 The solar fencing around the
Page 16 and 17: Curt Clumpner, founder and former d
Page 20 and 21: CHAPTER 2 Getting the science right
Page 22 and 23: Fig 2.2 One of the bears during in-
Page 24 and 25: Fig 2.3 Asiatic black bear cub, few
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Page 28 and 29: 3.1 Age at arrival CHAPTER 3 The Be
Page 30 and 31: Fig 3.3. A bear cub at CBRC with al
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Page 34 and 35: Proportion Fig 3.8 Dietary composit
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Page 40 and 41: Fig 4.4 Sergey Pazhetnov during his
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The three bears, Vierra(Faith) Nadi
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Annexure 1 Feed Formulation at OBRC
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Appendix V Report on the Internatio
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