Randy Boswell,
Canwest News Service
Monday, Oct. 19, 2009
Twenty-five years after being rescued from a death sentence on the shores of Hudson Bay, the Canadian-born polar bear at the centre of a long-running animal rights controversy in Britain has charmed her last visitors at the Edinburgh Zoo.
Mercedes, Britain's only polar bear, is set to be trucked this week to a luxurious new $600,000 enclosure near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, described as Europe's largest artificial habitat for a member of the iconic Arctic species.
The transfer was made possible by the donated services of British army sappers who built the unique enclosure as a construction training project before deployment this fall to Afghanistan.
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Full story: http://www.nationalpost.com/m/story.html?id=2120963&s=Home
James Morton
1100-5255 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
M2N 6P4
416 225 2777
Canwest News Service
Monday, Oct. 19, 2009
Twenty-five years after being rescued from a death sentence on the shores of Hudson Bay, the Canadian-born polar bear at the centre of a long-running animal rights controversy in Britain has charmed her last visitors at the Edinburgh Zoo.
Mercedes, Britain's only polar bear, is set to be trucked this week to a luxurious new $600,000 enclosure near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, described as Europe's largest artificial habitat for a member of the iconic Arctic species.
The transfer was made possible by the donated services of British army sappers who built the unique enclosure as a construction training project before deployment this fall to Afghanistan.
...
Full story: http://www.nationalpost.com/m/story.html?id=2120963&s=Home
James Morton
1100-5255 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
M2N 6P4
416 225 2777
4 comments:
Is a polar bear fetish a defined mental illness? 'Cause if anyone has it, you do! :-)
I think he has a love for most animals. It is a good job someone likes them..... , the polar bears will be extinct one of these times, because of Arctic warming.
Thank goodness for those who realize that we share the planet with many wonderful species, polar bears included, who have as much right to be here as we do!
Rat,
If so I am quite crazy!!!
james
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