Balto the polar wolf was born in captivity in 2020. He was purchased by a private owner in the Donetsk region, who later got rid of the unwanted animal, and Balto moved to the Dnipropetrovsk region, where he lived confined in a dark shed. In 2021 he was rescued by 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
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
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
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
Lord let my son live long enough to see that mountain torn down Austerity Blues – A Silver Mt. Zion In the essence of a person, as a social being, there is a desire to impress other people. Pleasant bonuses to the delight of the audience include monetary rewards, growth Read more
Authors: Maryna Shkvyria, Yegor Yakovlev In the spring of 2021, the Yasnogorodska ostrich farm purchased five bear cubs, three lion cubs and a small leopard from a wild animal dealer. A not indifferent visitor to the farm, Yuliya Shapovalenko, published on March 28 an appeal to the animal protection organization Read more
Authors: Maryna Shkvyria, Yegor Yakovlev Chada (in the past Chado) belongs to a rare subspecies of the Tien Shan brown bear, Ursus arctos isabellinus Horsfield, 1826. These animals are included in the IUCN Red List as an endangered (EN, endangered) subspecies. In the wild, on the territory of the Western Read more
Myhasyk was born in January 2014 in an unknown place and was sold to private individuals. Myhasyk was a contact toy to entertain visitors at a restaurant complex in the Khmelnytsky oblast. While he was small and defenceless, everyone was happy to contact him. People loved to take a photos Read more
