LIMA, Peru (AP) — A spectacled bear was born in a rescue middle constructed by a Peruvian farming neighborhood that has protected these animals for greater than twenty years.
The bear cub, which doesn’t but have a reputation, was found after park rangers locally of Santa Catalina de Chongoyape, in northern Peru, seen {that a} feminine bear named Lola didn’t depart her den.
“They heard completely different noises and solely today the little bear has begun to return out with its mom,” mentioned Edivar Carrasco, the president of the neighborhood.
Born in mid July, the little bear is the second delivery after a feminine was born six years in the past in a fenced space of a number of hectares the place meals and care are offered to ailing bears.
The farming neighborhood manages an ecological reserve the place spectacled bears (Tremarctos ornatus) and different animals such because the white-winged guan (Penelope albipennis) are usually not hunted and might discover a secure habitat for his or her lives in its carob timber and different forms of flora.
The spectacled bear is a susceptible species, based on the Purple Record of Threatened Species launched by the Worldwide Union for Conservation of Nature.
It’s recognized worldwide because of Paddington Bear, a kids’s storybook character created in 1958 by British author Michael Bond.