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For The Love Of Bears is a nonprofit encourage individual commitments in making lead to relocation or euthanasia - outcomes that
committed to bears and the critical ecosystems simple changes that will reduce the probability could have been avoided if 399 and cubs had
they call home. Through conservation, of bears frequenting neighborhoods. never learned to find food in the community.
education, research and advocacy they seek
to safeguard the future of bears. By encouraging those living in bear country Cleaned Up For the Love of Bears aims
to properly secure potential food sources like to protect bears like 399 and her cubs from
The nonprofit organization was birthed in trash cans, pet food and livestock feed, For the becoming habituated to humans and residential
2020 by a group of photographers and friends Love of Bears aims to decrease instances of areas. Through the program, you can learn
who are deeply passionate about bears and human/bear conflict and protect bears from about attractant mitigation and certify your
concerned with the wide range of constant becoming habituated to humans - a situation home and property as bear-friendly. For the
struggles bears face, from land development that all too frequently leads to euthanasia. Love of Bears encourages anyone living near
to climate change. Inspired to make a difference Once a bear learns there is food to be found wild bears to get certified and go beyond
and to give something back to the creatures near humans, they can become bolder in their existing local ordinances to ensure homes,
they love, they founded For the Love of Bears. searches. properties and communities are cleaned up
The friends, and now board members, bring properly - for the love of bears.
their varying backgrounds including marketing, World famous bear 399 and her quadruplet
nonprofit leadership, academia and biology cubs caused quite a stir in Jackson, Wyoming What can you do to help bears today? Visit
together to take on important issues such as last fall for such behavior. 399 and her brood ForTheLoveOfBears.org to learn more and to
cleaning up attractants and educating the were found frequenting yards, targeting make a generous contribution that will help
public on how to safely coexist with bears. beehives, livestock feed and other unsecured bears stay wild and free. Together, we can
attractants. Now three years old, the four cubs safeguard the future of bears.
For the Love of Bears has been hard at are expected to go out on their own this spring.
work supporting local projects, research and It is imperative the community takes action
initiatives across the United States, and now to prevent continued frequenting from these
they have their first nationwide campaign. This youngsters as they are learning to survive on
year they launched an initiative to protect wild their own. Continued human/bear conflict may
bears living near the places people also call
home. The initiative, “Cleaned Up For the Love
of Bears,” is designed to educate the public and

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