International Animal Rescue
Dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of suffering animals

IAR founder John Hicks and friend

"Each and every one of us has the ability to look at an animal and see if that animal is in pain. And if an animal is in pain, surely if we are human – if we are caring, thinking people – surely it is our responsibility to try to do whatever we can to stop that suffering."

John Hicks, IAR Founder

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Downloads: Cybear

Turn your computer desktop into a bear sanctuary!

This is Cybear!This is Cybear. He wants to come and live on your computer. He walks, climbs, sleeps and even eats. He comes equipped with his own den to sleep in, a mud pool to wallow in, plenty of space for wandering and a full supply of healthy fresh food - just like the real bears at our sanctuary in Agra. But this bear lives on your computer desktop. We call him Cybear, and as well as being very cute and a lot of fun he also has a vitally important job to do.

We’ve created Cybear as a unique - and highly cost effective - fundraising tool to help us spread the word about our work with the ’dancing’ bears of India. Now, in order to raise vital funds, we need Cybear to reach as many people as possible.

> Download for PC (1.3M)
> Download for Mac (min. requirement: Mac OS 10.2).

Once installed, choose ’Make Wallpaper Interactive’.

Cybear desktop sanctuarySetting him up on your computer is safe, easy and free. Then, if you wish, you can register your Cybear by making a small donation to our work (£5 minimum). This will in turn activate Cybear’s mailbox which means we’ll be able to keep you instantly up to date with all the news from IAR - including the latest on our bear rescues and updates and pictures from Agra.

Once you’ve got Cybear, please pass him on! Once you’ve met Cybear for yourself, please pass him on to as many people as possible by emailing them with our web address.

We want Cybear living on computers all over the world - telling people about our work and raising vital funds. This is a bold, innovative new fundraising idea and we need you to help us make it work. So please send him on to as many people as you can think of!

August 2008
Volunteer gives glowing report of her time in Goa
Gal Marwitz from Israel has given a glowing account of the time she spent volunteering at IAR’s clinic and rescue centre in Goa.

July 2008
Wildlife traders sent to prison in Indonesia
Following a joint raid earlier this year by the Forestry Department, International Animal Rescue and the Institute of Animal Advocacy (LASA), two traders in Jatinegara market, Jakarta, Indonesia were arrested.

June 2008
Update on IAR’s work in Indonesia
As well as macaques and slow lorises, our team in Indonesia has ended the suffering of a number of endangered Javan gibbons living in misery in a centre known as Cikananga.

June 2008
Goa vets examine hawksbill sea turtle
In June the vets at the International Animal Rescue centre in Goa had an unusual patient in the form of a giant Hawksbill sea turtle.

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