Arcturos: The greek brown bear sanctuary
Brown bears in Greece
ARCTUROS is a non profit, non governmental, environmental organization (NGO) focusing on the protection of wildlife fauna and natural habitat, in Greece and abroad.
At Nymfaio village, Arcturos operates the only brown bear sanctuary in Greece, caring captive bears by their illicit owners, as well as orphans and those improperly kept in the zoos.
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Arcturos, a Greek ecological organization focusing on saving the brown bear and its habitats
Brown bears once ranged all across Europe, but human encroachment on their forest habitats have made them an endangered species. Through the efforts of Arcturos, the size of the Greek brown bear population appears to have doubled in recent years. The organization also undertakes the rescue of bears kept captive in inhumane conditions—such as the notorious dancing bears, which are taken as cubs to be trained following the killing of their mother, as well as orphan bears and those improperly kept in zoos. It comprises a Veterinary Centre located in the village of Aetos, where animals are nursed back to health and a Mountain Sanctuary in the nearby Verno mountains close to the picturesque village of Nymfaio, an enclosed section of forest where the bears are transferred to be cared for and studied until they are able to be released back into the wild. The Sanctuary also serves as an educational and study field for scientists and the public alike.
The Environmental Center ARCTUROS - Greece
Brown bears once ranged all across Europe, but human encroachment on their forest habitats have made them an endangered species. Through the efforts of Arcturos, the size of the Greek brown bear population appears to have doubled in recent years. The organization also undertakes the rescue of bears kept captive in inhumane conditions—such as the dancing bears, which are taken as cubs to be trained following the killing of their mother, as well as orphan bears and those improperly kept in zoos. It comprises a veterinary centre located in the village of Aetos, where animals are nursed back to health and a mountain sanctuary in the nearby Verno mountains close to the village of Nymfaio, an enclosed section of forest where the bears are transferred to be cared for and studied until they are able to be released back into the wild. The sanctuary also serves as an educational and study field for scientists and the public.
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Studying brown bears in Northern Greece
This video contains images of free-ranging bears in Greece, taken within the framework of a PhD study carried out at the University of Thessaloniki and financed by the environmental organisation ARCTUROS. For more information contact Dr. Alexandros A. Karamanlidis (akaramanlidis at gmail.com) or visit the web site of ARCTUROS (arcturos.gr)
Saving the Bears - Greece
February 2005
The mountains of Greece once teemed with wild bears. Now, only a few hundred remain. However, one Greek tycoon is determined to help them avoid extinction.
Although bear troupes were outlawed in Greece 35 years ago, it's only thanks to the actions of Yiannnis Boutaris that the ban has been enforced. He's founded a bear sanctuary to care for rescued dancing bears. Now he hopes the sanctuary will educate children on the benefits of conservation.
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Danger of bears becoming tamer
Conservationists in Greece are trying to stop the country's indigenous brown bears from gathering food in mountain villages as they fear the animals are in danger of no longer being truly wild.
Forest fires have made many bears homeless and the story of one small family has become a cause celebre, as Malcolm Brabant reports from Northern Greece.
Astons
Giannis Siskos, Hotel Manager.
Lambros Krambokoukis, Arcturos Bear Charity.
Pictures courtesy of Arcturos Bear Charity (pix of mother and cub.
Iannis Mandrinos, Kleissoura resident.
Arcturos bear in mind part 1
This video is a part of a project that we were assigned to deliver at the AD and PR Lab of Panteion University .
The Bear in Mind promo video aims to show in a funny way the need for humans to take some actions in order to help bears . The brown bear is now an endangered specie and the only one to blame for this is humans that destroyed their natural habitat and tormented them for years with the preposterous dancing bear phenomenon .
This video basically says that we can't wait for the animals to tell us what to do to help them .We should realize the need to help and act now . We should keep in mind that we are not alone in this world . Bears have the right to exist too.
Meet Usko the bear who USES A WHEELCHAIR to get around
The home for traumatised bears: Animals left with psychological damage after abuse by humans are given a chance to recover at Greek sanctuary
Arcturos sanctuary cares for bears and wolves maltreated by humans
Some are from zoos or have been orphaned by illegal poachers
The sanctuary is located at Nymfaio, 350 miles northwest of Athens
New life: Three-year-old Usko was found in Macedonia as a baby. He was paralysed from the waist down, so Arcturos staff fashioned a wheelbarrow that enables him to move around
Three-year-old Usko was found in Macedonia as a baby. He was paralysed from the waist down, so Arcturos staff - amazed by his zest for life - fashioned a wheelbarrow that enables him to move around in an area with flat surfaces.
'There are a lot of problems with captive bears, mainly in the Balkans. The biggest problem is in Albania and (Macedonia) where there are still legal shortcomings,' Avgerinou says.
'So there are still bears that need shelter... there are other sanctuaries in the Balkans and (elsewhere) in Europe, but they are generally full,' she adds.
A still-suckling baby called Luigi - named after Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon - arrived in April after a fruitless two-day search for his mother.
Two youngsters from Montenegro had preceded him and three more infant bears from Bulgaria will be added soon.
I like to move it, move it: Dmitris Nikolaou feeds three-year-old paralysed bear Usko, who manages to move around with his hind legs on a home-made wheelbarrow-like contraption
Founded in 1992, Arcturos shelters bears and wolves mainly from the Balkans but has also taken large predators from as far away as Austria and Georgia.
The bears live in 12.5 acres of beech forest on the mountain, donated by the local municipality. The wolves share 17 acres of oak forest farther down the valley.
'We try to teach people that we are not alone in nature, and that we should not see nature as a rival,' says Arcturos guide Vassilis Fourkiotis, who comes from a local farming family.
Arcturos was originally created to counter the use of bears as entertainment.
Bear dancing - forcibly taught to the animals by making them walk on hot coals - is a practice once popular at country fairs that still survives in the Balkans, though it was eradicated in Greece a few decades ago.
Over the years, the organisation's activities have expanded to environmental awareness campaigns, veterinary care and reintegration.
So far, two males and a female have been successfully returned to the wild.
Visit Macedonia - Florina, Arktouros Environmental center.
Visit Macedonia
Macedonia today is a geographical region of Greece, and the largest of the Greek territory.
It constitutes most of the geographic and historical region of ancient Macedon, a Greek kingdom ruled by the Argeads whose most celebrated members were Alexander the Great and his father Philip II.
In 336 B.C., Alexander the Great became the leader of the Greek kingdom of Macedonia. By the time he died 13 years later, Alexander had built an empire that stretched from Greece all the way to India. That brief but thorough empire-building campaign changed the world: It spread Greek ideas and culture from the Eastern Mediterranean to Asia. Historians call this era the Hellenistic period.
The name Macedonia was later applied to identify various administrative areas in the Roman and Byzantine Empires with widely differing borders.
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With their long experience, the volunteers of Arktouros, the greek organization for the protection of bears, are sharing their know how with the people of new shelters for bears, in the Balkans and in Turkey. Such bears, previously in captivity, will not be allowed to reproduce and they will never be released in the wild, since they would not survive without the care of humans.
Arcturos by 6Dimensions
This is the main video for Arcturos' marketing campaign powered by 6 Dimensions .
Panteion University, Athens, Greece
MarcetingLab, ADandPRLab
Year 3rd, 2015-16
Wolves in Greece 2017
Hydra, Greece.
Interview with Lazaros ( the director of Arcturos)
Lazaros talk us about the important role of the volunteer in Arcturos. Its not only an extra- help, is more than this, they bring motivation and new energy of the organization.
ARCTUROS was founded in 1992 in order to put an end in the phenomenon of the 'dancing bear' which was at the time a common sight around Greece. Since then ARCTUROS has been actively working for the conservation of large carnivores both in Greece and around the Balkans. Through applied research it gathers information that allows dynamic intervention in cases where important habitats are threatened or destroyed by large technical works such as roads, dams, quarries and so on. At the same time it carries out Special Environmental Studies in areas of high ecological significance. Over the last 15 years ARCTUROS has developed initiatives based on legislative provisions previously not put into action, which improved existing regulations or the establishment of new provisions.
Following the trail of ARCTUROS
Horse riding with Artemis o.e. around Nymfaio Florina, Greece (ιππασία)
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