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Stuer (dpa / mv) - Anyone interested in the coexistence of brown bears can now follow this via the Internet at the Stuer Bear Protection Center (Mecklenburg Lake District).

As the animal welfare foundation Vier Pfoten announced on Thursday, a seven-year-old female bear and an eleven-year-old male were now able to move into a joint enclosure in the bear forest.

Such "socializations" as with Luna and Rocco are always carried out in the protection center during the mating season in spring.

Luna was freed from an amusement park and Rocco from a pet farm in Albania in 2017 from their too tight positions and brought to Stuer.

Now the couple is being closely observed, because there is no guarantee that they will remain harmonious even after the mating season.

The bear forest, in which 15 brown bears from previously unsuitable keeping, was opened by the foundation in 2006.

The area comprises around 16 hectares of forest and open spaces with natural streams and artificial swimming pools.

In 2019, more than 100,000 visitors came for the first time.

But offspring is not to be expected: all male bears will be neutered so that they cannot reproduce.

Bears should not be bred in the bear forest.

Brown bears were not an endangered species.

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