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An Incredible Sanctuary You Can Visit in The Black Forest: The Alternative Bear and Wolf Park | Sabina Reimann | Ep 91
Episode 91
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In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Sabrina Reimann who is a project leader from the Black Forest in Germany’s Alternative Wolf and Bear Park. I first met Sabrina a few years ago, when we took our first-ever group tours of vegans on a trip to Paris and Alsace. Seb discovered this place when he was doing the research for this trip. He reached out to some vegans just across the border in Alsace, and they mentioned that this place might be a good place to bring a group.
So, as I say in the podcast, it is a little bit confusing when you drive by this place as to whether this park is a zoo or a sanctuary, and Seb was also a little confused too, but on his scout, as we always do, Seb visited and chatted with staff, and it became quickly evident that this incredible place was doing so much to help bears, wolves, and lynx that have been placed in terrible situations - of course, we talk about this issue in depth in the interview.
I will never forget how excited Seb was to tell me about this incredible place and how excited he was to take groups here, in this remote area of The Black Forest that honestly would be a bit of a trek to come by yourself.
We really hope that you will check out and support the work that Sabrina and her colleagues are doing to help educate the public about the issues facing these animals when in captivity and also to help improve the relationship between bears, lynx, and especially wolves as the numbers of these animals in the wild slowly increase.
Consider also a trip to The Black Forest, whether with us on our Alsace trips or by yourselves. There are some amazing hiking trails, cute German towns and villages, ruined castles, and so on. We have been lucky enough to visit the Black Forest a few times, including when we hiked 7 or so days of The Westweg, a long-distance trail between Pforzheim and Basel a few years ago that is 288 km long in total (you stay in small hotels and little villages between each leg).
If you are stuck for an idea of a place to go, then I can’t imagine a better 10 days or so exploring The Black Forest.
In this episode, we discuss
- How the Bear and Wolf parks started.
- Why such sanctuaries are needed in Europe?
- Where the Bear and Wolf Parks are located
- The story behind one of the residents of the sanctuary
- The issues facing bears and wolves in the wild
- What you can expect when you go
- What the challenges are for the organization
- Their short and medium terms goals
- How you can support the bear and wolf park
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