A Home For Bears

If bears can be said to have a "mission," surely it is to live as bears, in the wild, far from humans. Like all animals in zoos and circuses, these bears had no say in their sorry fates; now they are simply being warehoused, possibly in the hopes that they will die before the people in charge are forced to find them a decent home. Moving them might indeed be stressful to them, but as "ambassadors to the public for other animals" (to quote Jill Marvin's ludicrous description) they have been deprived of freedom for decades, and loss of freedom is itself stressful. Five years have gone by since the zoo was shut, which would seem ample time to transfer three old bears to an appropriate sanctuary in which to live out their days in a decent environment.