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It’s heartbreaking for a mother to be separated from her babies and some loggers did just that, they split a family.
With their cutting equipment, they damaged the den of a mother bear causing her to flee and leave her three babies behind, two males and a female.
We have seen this ‘forced separation’ happening with seals when the mothers are disturbed and scared by humans so they flee, leaving their little ones behind. It’s just gutwrenching.
The lumberjacks left the litter in the damaged den for two days hoping the mom would come back but sadly she did not.
Staff with the Rescue Center for Orphaned Bear Cubs drove 1,600 miles from Tver to Kirov to go and rescue these babies.
They were given special permission to evade COVID-19 lockdown rules for the trip.
They took food supplies and sleeping bags because hotels were closed due to the lockdown.
They named the bear cubs, Lala (girl), Mirny and Lyokha the boys.
The rescuers are keeping human contact to a minimum as the bears will be returned to the wild after being raised in the orphanage.
Pictures via Центр спасения медвежат-сирот