Nick Maxwell launches Bricks for Bears campaign

Mar 18, 2010

Nick, Captain of Collingwood Football Club, is aiming to help WSPA raise $500,000 for the new campaign. Used to build and run a new bear sanctuary in Pakistan, this money will help house bears currently still forced to fight in bear baiting events.

Nick says: ‘Bear baiting isn’t a sport. It’s animal cruelty. Until recently I knew nothing about it, but now I want to do everything I can to help WSPA rescue and care for these bears.’

Nick is encouraging football lovers and animal lovers alike to join together to reach the $500,000 target: ‘This is a huge goal,’ he admits ‘but I am confident that together we can reach it.’

Visit www.bricksforbears.org.au to be among the first to buy a brick for our virtual sanctuary. Personalise and upload your bricks for $10 each, and share them with your friends and colleagues as we build our virtual sanctuary together.

The facts are cruel and we just can’t wait any longer. Every bear that we anticipate rescuing has never experienced life in the wild; they are poached as cubs and stolen from their natural habitat and families. If that is not enough trauma their canine teeth are broken, claws extracted, their sensitive muzzle is pierced by a nose-ring or rope, and this is all before the spectacle even begins.

Bears are then tethered to a central post in the middle of a crowded stadium. Egged on by the spectators, up to four specially bred dogs set upon the bear. This can happen up to seven times a day for each bear during a single bear baiting event.
 
Visit www.bricksforbears.org.au now and help Nick build our virtual sanctuary so we can make it into a reality.

The bears are waiting for us.

 Watch Nick Maxwell talk about bear baiting and his love of animals