Wild Andean bear by Robyn Appleton in Peru
The work of bear biologist Robyn Appleton in Peru will be profiled in BEARTREK, but we need your help to support her work, and film it in January 2009. Her project is unprecedented and has amazing access to wild bears (they have rarely been filmed in the wild before, and never this close up). Robyn works closely with local villagers where she has been adopted as “family”. She’s helped the people there through bear conservation by hiring them onto her project. Much of what she is learning is new to science and we are doing all we can to support her work – financially, and by bringing the plight of the threatened Andean bear to the world’s attention through film and the web.
Wildlife Media has also provided a satellite radio collar to monitor one of her bear’s movements, paid for salaries for local help, and made general operating cost donations to Robyn’s work. In addition, Wildlife Media’s John Taylor paid for a village gate and fence to keep poachers out of the area, and Wildlife Media’s Annie Mize helped pay for Robyn’s recent radio collaring trip to Peru.
Watch a clip from Joe Pontecorvo’s exploratory mission to Peru where he managed to capture one of these super-elusive animals on film like never before.
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