Forest officials have recently rescued a sloth bear from smugglers in West Bengal’s Malda district, and three persons have been arrested. The animal was being used in Nepal as a dancing bear for ...

The seized bears were being exploited for the illegal dancing bear trade, in violation of the Wildlife (Protection) Act (WPA), 1972.

In India, where many sloth bears are found, their numbers are declining mainly due to habitat loss, poaching and the use of the animals for an illegal practice known as “bear dancing.”In ...

India’s last dancing bear has retired. As the stars of their cruel little roadshows, sloth bears danced to the piercing sounds of the damru for hundreds of years. Orphaned by poachers and ...

This Bear Rescue Centre in Agra was established by Wildlife SOS, an NGO, in collaboration with the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department in 1999. The Centre was set up to rescue Indian Dancing Bears, or ...

India outlawed sloth bear performances in 1972, but the animals still turn up along roadsides, forced to dance for money by owners who control them using a rope forced through their extremely ...