United States
This year’s conference and trade show will take place from July 19-21 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, In Arlington Virginia. Join us at this very special event, where IAR will have a table and Laurence Van Atten, our development coordinator, will be speaking.
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 Adopt a Bear!
For just $25, you can feed a bear for a month and provide it with environmental enrichment in our bear sanctuary in Agra.
To adopt a Bear:
Please contact us by email or call us on (508) 826-1083. You will receive: IAR teddy bear, Adoption certificate, Color photo of your adopted bear, Animal Tracks magazine, ‘The Bear Necessities’ DVD.
IAR’s US office is run by Laurence Van Atten from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Laurence studied Animal Welfare and Animal Behavior at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In 2006 she spent three months in India at the Agra bear sanctuary - one of three sanctuaries for rescued bears in India that IAR is funding. Laurence’s passion for animals and her hands-on experience of IAR’s rescue and rehabilitation work make her ideally suited to the job of raising awareness of IAR and recruiting support in the US for the work we’re doing to help suffering animals.
 Laurence worked on providing various forms of environmental enrichment for the blind bears at the facility to try to improve their mental and physical wellbeing. Enrichment is a crucial factor in preventing boredom and promoting natural behaviors. By increasing the opportunities for the bears at the sanctuary to forage, their explorative and manipulative instincts were stimulated, consequently challenging the animals on a cognitive level.
The project was highly successful and some bears that did not normally leave their dens were running around their enclosures investigating and playing happily with a variety of ’toys.’ These ranged from simple bundles of straw to ’honey logs’ - large bamboo poles smeared on the inside with honey that the bears lick spend hours licking out; from ordinary rubber tires to ’wobble trees’ - baskets of fruit mounted on wooden poles that the bears learn to shake to make the fruit drop - all just as they would in the wild. High quality digital pictures and video are available upon request.
Laurence organizes lectures and fundraising events to raise awareness of IAR’s efforts and she is also available for interviews, comments and speaking engagements. A documentary about Laurence’s work with International Animal Rescue is being shown on local cable stations throughout Massachusetts and is available upon request.
Contact information / To send a donation
Laurence Eve Van Atten, Development Coordinator
International Animal Rescue, US
PO Box 137, Shrewsbury, MA 01545
Email: info@internationalanimalrescue.org
Phone: (508) 826-1083
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International Animal Rescue, US was incorporated on 19 April 2001 and granted tax exemption by the IRS, and is a federally registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (Tax Id No: 54-2044674). International Animal Rescue is registered in all states to solicit donations and contributions received from supporters in the USA are therefore tax deductible. > Donate
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