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16:41 GMT, 29 June 2012 | The Daily Mail
Torn away from his mother, and then shoved screaming into a tiny box which is nailed shut - this is
what happened to a bear so it could please tourists in Ukraine.
This heartbreaking footage was released by an Austrian animal charity trying to get the two bears reunited.
The baby bear Nastasia is seen screaming in terror as she is taken away by a photographer who has been
using her to make pictures of tourists in the country co-hosting Euro 2012.
The campaigners from Vier Pfoten (Four paws) released the video and want support to pressurise the zoo
in Lutsk in Ukraine's northern Volyn region to reunite mother and four-month-old cub.
While the youngster is screaming, the mother bear is shown racing around the cage and throwing herself
at the metal mesh in a bid to get back to her cub. The cub is then pushed down into a wooden box still
shrieking - and it is nailed shut with a wire cover.
A baby bear in the wild usually spends two years with its mother. Taking it away so young would leave the tiny
bear traumatised for life.
16:41 GMT, 29 June 2012 | The Daily Mail
Torn away from his mother, and then shoved screaming into a tiny box which is nailed shut - this is
what happened to a bear so it could please tourists in Ukraine.
This heartbreaking footage was released by an Austrian animal charity trying to get the two bears reunited.
The baby bear Nastasia is seen screaming in terror as she is taken away by a photographer who has been
using her to make pictures of tourists in the country co-hosting Euro 2012.
The campaigners from Vier Pfoten (Four paws) released the video and want support to pressurise the zoo
in Lutsk in Ukraine's northern Volyn region to reunite mother and four-month-old cub.
While the youngster is screaming, the mother bear is shown racing around the cage and throwing herself
at the metal mesh in a bid to get back to her cub. The cub is then pushed down into a wooden box still
shrieking - and it is nailed shut with a wire cover.
A baby bear in the wild usually spends two years with its mother. Taking it away so young would leave the tiny
bear traumatised for life.
