Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Canadian polar bear to get new Scottish Highlands hideaway


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



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4 comments:

The Rat said...

Is a polar bear fetish a defined mental illness? 'Cause if anyone has it, you do! :-)

A Eliz. said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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!

James C Morton said...

Rat,

If so I am quite crazy!!!

james