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ANIMAL-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
Polar bear in their sights

The Canadian Press

Sunday, October 02, 2005

WINNIPEG -- A polar bear that Winnipeg zoo officials describe as their "pride and joy" might become the latest target of an international animal-rights campaign.

The director of a Scottish activist group says Winnipeg needs to improve the living conditions of Assiniboine Park Zoo's lone polar bear, Debbie.

Animal-rights critics are saying that 30-year-old Debbie, reputedly the world's oldest living polar bear in captivity, is another example of polar-bear confinement gone wrong.
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