This year, we received a request for help from a friendly organisation, the Brown Bear Rehabilitation Centre, which is managed by the Synevyr National Nature Park and operates in the Transcarpathian oblast. The Brown Bear Rehabilitation Centre has been operating since 2011, and currently rehabilitates 32 bears that were taken Read more
Our wonderful couple, Myhasyk and Lyubochka, have finally completed a huge journey of 1,800 kilometres today and are now living in the Tier-, Natur- und Jugendzentrum Weidefeld, which is managed by the Deutscher Tierschutzbund e.V. This is a wonderful rehabilitation centre, where our bear Malvina has been living since 2022. Read more
Odin (Oscar, Masya=Little one) was born on March 12, 2023. His origin is unknown. The little wolf cub was sold over the Internet and spent two years in a small apartment in the middle of Kyiv. During the rescue, we were able to conduct a veterinary examination and X-ray diagnostics. Read more
Today, our team successfully completed an ambitious veterinary task. Our dear Lyubochka has obsessive-compulsive disorder, which, unfortunately, progressed over time despite our efforts. Last year, our colleagues from the Department of Reproductive Management at the Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (IZW) helped us diagnose the cause of the disorder and Read more
We lived this year together with you. This year there were many events. Newly rescued animals, events, acquaintances and cooperation. Our project developed qualitatively despite the difficult times thanks to friends. We installed a donated LAV refrigerator where we store food. We sent the grey wolf Dora to the Arcturos Read more
Happy stories are always the result of the teamwork of a community of caring people and professional organizations. It is just such a story happening these days. Two brown bears were evacuated from a private menagerie near Pokrovsk (Donetsk Oblast, front-line area) with the help of the Wild Animals Rescue Read more
On October 8, 2024, a bear attacked a Selo Kuzmynets, Kaluska district resident, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. Fortunately, the victim survived. In connection with this event, we remind you RULES OF BEHAVIOR IN PLACES OF THE BEAR’S EXISTENCE 1In places where bears live, it is necessary to show attention and caution. Try to Read more
The well-known French publication Biodiversity MAG published a special issue about Ukraine entitled “People, animals and biodiversity. The impact of Russian ecocide on Ukraine” by Dr. Laurent Dingli. It was an honour for us to help implement this work! You can read interviews with members of our Foundation by clicking Read more
We are pleased to announce that we have joined the international organization Species360. Species360, formerly ISIS (International Species Information System), was founded in 1974, It is an American non-profit non-governmental membership organization that maintains an international animal database, ZIMS (Zoological Information Management System), as there are five modules for different Read more
In 2021, UAnimals raised funds to build one of our enclosures for rescued bear cubs. A full-scale war dramatically changed all plans. We evacuated bear cubs to Europe, and construction was frozen. But we always fulfil our obligations. So, despite all the difficulties and new prices, we finally completed the Read more
The Universal Declaration of Animal Rights was solemnly proclaimed in Paris on 15 October 1978 at the UNESCO headquarters.The text, revised by the International League of Animal Rights in 1989, was submitted to the UNESCO Director General in 1990 and made public that same year. PREAMBLEConsidering that Life is one, Read more
INITIAL DRAFT TEXT ARISING FROM THE MANILA CONFERENCE ON ANIMAL WELFARE (2003) AND THE COSTA RICA STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING (2005) FOR MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE CONSIDERATION PREAMBLE [The Costa Rica Steering Committee, following on from the Manila Conference on Animal Welfare, confirms:]That animal welfare is an issue worth consideration by governments.That the Read more
(revised 2018; annotated 2020) 1A wildlife rehabilitator should strive to achieve high standards of animal care through knowledge and an understanding of the field. Individuals must make an effort to be informed of current rehabilitation information, methods, and regulations through participation in continuing education.Wildlife rehabilitators need to strive to continually Read more
The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness* On this day of July 7, 2012, a prominent international group of cognitive neuroscientists, neuropharmacologists, neurophysiologists, neuroanatomists and computational neuroscientists gathered at The University of Cambridge to reassess the neurobiological substrates of conscious experience and related behaviors in human and non-human animals. While comparative research Read more
The Toulon Declaration * PROCLAIMED on March 29, 2019 – TOULON – FRANCE (The Toulon Declaration, which emerged from the trilogy of symposia on the legal personality of animals, is conceived as a response by legal scholars to the Cambridge Declaration of 7 July 2012). PREAMBLE We, legal scholars, having Read more
Charter on the Law of the Living, adopted on May 26, 2021, is part of a trilogy formed by the Toulon Declaration, adopted on March 29, 2019, and the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, adopted on July 7, 2012, which state that animals who possess the neurological substrates that generate consciousness Read more
Wildlife veterinary medicine requires expertise. But in general, the requests for wild large carnivores are the same as for domestic dogs and cats – vaccination, deworming, sterilization, treatment and prevention of a certain range of acute and chronic diseases. But the secret, as always, is in the nuances. This is the Read more
Nymphadora she-wolfdog came to us today. She is a natural hybrid. This phenomenon – hybridization in nature is quite rare, but part of the norm for the population. In 2020, she was stolen from her den as a small cub and kept in a cage for almost four years. She Read more
Finally, we can tell you good news about Dora the she-wolf, who we have been caring for for the past ten months. Today, February 22, the M&M Zoo service team, with the financial support of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), brought her to her new home at the Read more
Yampil the bear has finally arrived at Five Sisters Zoo in Scotland! During the Kharkiv counteroffensive, Ukrainian troops liberated the settlements of Lyman and Yampil in Donetsk oblast, which had previously housed a private menagerie. The territory of Yampil was occupied only in April 2022. The animal farm owner was Read more
