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“Our beloved Yampil has passed away”: a bear rescued from the Donetsk region died after medical procedure in the Scottish zoo that adopted him.
Yampil, a bear that was evacuated from a zoo in Donetsk Oblast in 2022, has died after not waking up from anesthesia, Five Sisters Zoo in Scotland announced on July 13.
The Asian black bear was rescued from an abandoned private zoo on the outskirts of the village of Yampil in Donetsk Oblast, when Ukrainian forces liberated the village in October 2022. Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine turned to animal volunteers for help to take the wounded animal out of the combat zone.
UAnimals animal rights activists helped transport the sick animal for rehabilitation to the Lutsk Zoo, later it was transferred to Poland, and later to Belgium.
Yampil was the only animal out of 200 found still alive in the zoo; starving, filthy, with a concussion due to a exploding shell near his cage and close to death.
He was initially housed at a wildlife refuge in Belgium before finding a permanent homed in the Scottish Five Sisters Zoo in January 2024.
“Prior to the move to his new enclosure this morning, Yampil was anesthetized for further treatment for his health problems, which were worrying the team. Sadly, anesthetizing animals always carries risks, and Yampil did not recover from the procedure, and despite the best efforts from our veterinary team, we were unable to resuscitate him,” Five Sisters Zoo said.
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