Prishtina

Hundreds of Kosovars have erected tents in Pristina’s main square.

Kosovo opposition supporter keep warm beside pitched tents in front of the main governing building, in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. 

They are demanding snap elections and the suspension of a parliamentary vote that will bring in a president who helped broker a deal giving more powers to the ethnic Serb minority.

 

Kosovo Highway

Opposition protest in Prishtina, Kosovo

BEAR SANCTUARY near Prishtina

 

The Bear Sanctuary Prishtina currently has 16 bears rescued from restaurants around Kosovo. They were born in the forests of Kosovo or Albania and snatched from their mothers by animal dealers.

 

 

16 brown bears now live at Bear Sanctuary Prishtina. They suffered a terrible life for many years in cramped cages near restaurants and on cement floors around Kosovo before they were recused by FOUR PAWS. Many owners of restaurants took advantage of the lack of adequate laws protecting endangered animals, keeping the bears in small cages under terrible conditions. In response to this situation, FOUR PAWS offered an alternative by building a sanctuary for bears that were kept in captivity.

 

 

At sanctuary the bears have all that they need including an adequate diet, veterinary care, enrichment, and for the first time in their lives they have planty of space to roam, swim, dig, look for food and pursue their instinct.