The world’s largest land predator to Orsa Bear

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The world’s largest land predator to Orsa Bear Park in Sweden.
Orsa Bear Park in Grönklitt saves the lives of bear cubs from Kodiak Island, Alaska.

The largest land predator living in the wild is the Kodiak bear. A rescue operation launched by U.S. authorities and companies to aid two orphaned bear cubs on Kodiak Island towards a future in a new facility located in Orsa, Sweden is currently underway. The facility located in Sweden is called Orsa Bear Park. Over the past 35 years, not a single bear has left Kodiak Island due to the fact that parks have not proven to have high enough standards to maintain and ensure a good future for the Kodiak . Orsa Bear Park in Grönklitt, Sweden has been selected by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to receive two Kodiak bears that would otherwise met a certain death in the wilds on Kodiak Island as their mothers have died.
During the fall on two occasions, two cubs were orphaned on Kodiak Island. The cubs began to circle closer and closer into populated areas which left the authorities with two choices, to either remove the cubs or bring them in. Over the past 35 years, not a single bear has left Kodiak Island as parks have not had high enough standards to maintain and ensure a good future for the Kodiak. Orsa Bear Park has had many years of extensive and good relations with Kodiak and Alaska. Foremost, Kodiak and Alaska have acted as a source of information for Orsa Bear Park in terms of education and management techniques. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has approved Orsa Bear Park as the only facility in the world to receive Kodiak bears.

Phd Larry Van Daele, who is responsible for the management of the bears on Kodiak Island, says that “to date there has been no facility in the world that has kept such a standard that we could imagine placing the Kodiak Bears in. Following the recent exchange on education and management information, we have had a glimpse into Orsa Bear Park, which operates at such a high standard that we, from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, know that the bears will have a good life, so we have chosen to cooperate with The Grönklitt Group and Orsa Bear Park”.

The two small cubs, now saved for a future in Orsa Bear Park and become ambassadors for an exciting Predator Foundation, have recently been flown to Anchorage where they will spend some time in a prominent Wildlife Center that works with species conservation. This means that the rescue operation of the cubs has started with support from both U.S. agencies and companies.
We are proud and overwhelmed of the support we have received from the U.S. rescue operation of these two Kodiak bear cubs” says Torbjörn Wallin, CEO of The Grönklitts Group, which owns and operates Orsa Bear Park. In Sweden the process has begun with acquiring permits, the design of enclosures, applications, etc. and hopefully this will lead to the two cubs from Kodiak Island coming to Sweden and Grönklitt as ambassadors for life in the wild, in the near future.
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