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Three orphaned bears to be euthanized will not be put down after all.
The bears were brought into the Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation after their mother was shot near the Cote First Nation.
On Wednesday, the Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park and Zoo said it would take in the cubs, temporarily, until they can be released back into the wild.
The Ministry of Environment had ruled the facilities available at Living Sky were not fit for long term care.
So, the Ministry scheduled the bears to be euthanized on Thursday.
Tim Sinclair-Smith, manager of Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park and Zoo, said he knew his zoo could help.
“When we were approached about the situation, we looked at it and we thought very basically, it’s the right thing to do,” he told 650 CKOM.
Sinclair-Smith said the zoo will be able to provide the proper diet and housing needed for the cubs.
However, visitors to the zoo won’t be seeing them.
“The whole point of this is not for having the bears kept in captivity,” he said. “We want them to remain, for lack of a better word, wild bears.”
The cubs will be looked after with as little human contact as possible until they are fit to be released back into the wild.