Masha is gone .. We thought love was enough, but [...]

After more than 10 years of failed attempts, King, formerly [...]

After more than 38 years spent in captivity, on concrete [...]

She was sentenced to 34 years of detention, carrying the [...]

In 2020, at the age of 33, Leo also left for Ursa Mare. He went out quietly, in the shade of a tree, listening to the birds chirping.

On a beautiful autumn day, Katy went to Big Dipper where she met the other bears that watch over us from above.

Belle still enjoys the 69 hectares of oak forest.

For 8 years he was free, he could walk in the forest and was loved and respected as each animal deserves.

Wonderful Katia has been sentenced like her sister Dasha to [...]

Charles was imprisoned for almost 40 years old in a rusty cages of the Ethnographic Museum in Vrancea department. He did not have an official name, but volunteers from the Center for “Wildlife Rescue

Benny came to the sanctuary with his sister Alla. Both were 27 years old when they arrived at the sanctuary. All these years they had to live with the miserable conditions at the same zoo where they lived

Lidia is the first bear who arrived to the Libearty Sanctuary in 2005. Together with Cristi, she was the tourist attraction of a restaurant in Poiana Brasov.

Lizzie has been called Pamela for nearly 30 years. During this time, she lived at a zoo in Oradea, in a small, dark and miserable cage.

Nadia and Igor were brother and sister and they came from a Zoo in Tecuci (Galati County). Next to the cage of the two lived Cocolina.

Ursula was a unique bear. All of the bears at the Libearty sanctuary are European brown bears but Ursula an Asiatic black bear. In fact she was the oldest of the former prisoners of Buhuşi Zoo

After 32 years in prison, Eva stepped on the sanctuary grass and enjoyed the pool water, two things that the old female had completely during her life at the Braila Zoo. There she lived with her son

Kodiak lived a life of misery at Onesti Zoo, which was closed by the authorities because of very bad conditions offered to the animals

Monica spent more than 15 years behind bars in a zoo from Ploiești. In 2009 she finally said good-bye to her friends of suffering: the steel bars and concrete floor of the cage.

Muky is the only bear in the sanctuary that had to be put on a diet at the time he arrived here. He was rescued after 10 years of captivity in a small cage at the Balvanyos resort (Covasna County)

Born in 2001, Mura was the celebrity of the Globus Circus in Bucharest. She was made to ride a bicycle and to walk on her hind paws, wearing a child's dress

Odi was caught from the wild as a cub in 1993. She lived at a farm in a cage which measured only 1.5 meters by 2 meters. She spent 12 years there, surviving on a diet based only on corn

Suzi is a female brown bear, who lived for 11 years at a Zoo in Roman. Cellmate with Marița, Ursi and Bobiță she had to endure starvation, thirst, cold and dirt same as the others bears

Vasilică is an ex-prisoner of the same mini zoo at the “Lutsch 2000” Gas Station where Mary lived for 2 years. Vasilică had to survive 6 long years of captivity

Yogy was “reborn” in April 2011 when he arrived to the sanctuary. Until that day he spent his life behind bars at a zoo in Sibiu. As he was already too old, some younger bears were brought to the zoo.

Ionică’s story is short, but sad. There is not too much to say about spending half a lifetime behind bars in a Zoo in Călăraşi.

Kati and Doru were both born on the same day in 1988 and never were separated since. The two, sister and brother, endured 20 long years together in a zoo in Caracal (Olt County).

Marinică was found as a small cub in the forest. His mother was probably killed and he was easily taken away, as nobody was there to protect him.

Mariţa was the oldest ex-resident of a Zoo in Roman, where she lived together with three other bears.

Max was born in 1997. Being only few months old, he was held captive in the town of Sinaia, near the famous Peleş Castle. There, the tourists passing by would pay for a photograph next to the bear

Ala was Benny’s sister and they were both 27 years old when they arrived to the Sanctuary

Betsy is the first bear from the “Libearty" sanctuary, brought from overseas, Texas. She was a circus artist, and the difficult years of torment that she spent in the arena

Six square meters is for a bear, what about one square meter is for a man. You can barely move, before hitting the bars with your nose.

In 2005, Cristi and Lidia were the first inhabitants of the Libearty sanctuary Cristi was born in 1981 and was caught from the wild as a cub.

His mother was shot by hunters, and he was "imprisoned" with his brother by their mother’s executioners