Hauser Bears' work is focused on long term, sustainable solutions, focusing on education and research both in the UK and abroad.
Our main core of activities revolves around bringing key people together in the form of symposiums, workshops and educational programs in order to change perceptions, and practices, and preventing the expansion of the trade by taking proactive educational measures in targeted areas.
The aim of Hauser Bears is to protect and care for the welfare of bears, but it is our firm belief that successful long term projects must also be built around people. Our activities are mainly community-centred, looking for ways to educate and change long established habits and practices, in ways that also enrich and benefit people's lives. Hauser Bears is an organisation but it is also a movement to help people build better lives whilst relieving the suffering of bears.
Education to decrease the demand for bear products is key to successfully phase out cultural practices without increasing pressure on wild populations. Hauser Bears also believes that well thought out alternative trade programs for vulnerable people who have an economic dependency on the bear trade are important to ensure that these changes are sustainable.
Hauser Bears is also supporting a number of organisations on the ground, which rescue and care for bears such as Animals Asia, Wildlife SOS India and Free The Bears Foundation, raising much needed funds for joint projects and to help them care for their rescued animals.