Bern zoo opens a new enclosure for its Russian bears
In 2009, two Mongolian brown bears, orphans Mischa and Mascha, were given to Bern by the Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and his wife, who were visiting Switzerland for the first time. The cubs were put in Bern animal park, but their enclosure was too small. So the zoo raised SFr.3 million for a big new Bear Forest. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch/SF)
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Julie worked as a radio reporter for BBC and independent radio all over the UK before joining swissinfo.ch's predecessor, Swiss Radio International, as a producer. After attending film school, Julie worked as an independent filmmaker before coming to swissinfo.ch in 2001.
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Bear family to stay united
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They will remain in the place where they were born, sharing the bear park not only with their mother, Björk, as they have done up to now, but also with their father, Finn, who for nearly two years now has been divided from them by a high wire fence. The announcement by zoo director Bernd…
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