The Last Dance

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How India's Dancing Bears were rescued from a life of cruelty - The Last Dance looks at how a coalition of animal charities set about bringing to an end the barbaric practice of dancing bears on the streets of India.  This highly-illustrated coffee-table hardback is written by animal activist Sean Whyte and Alan Knight OBE, Chief Executive of East Sussex charity International Animal Rescue that spearheaded the rescue of the bears who were controlled by ropes through their noses. It describes how the nomadic Kalandar gypsies ...

Read More were persuaded to give up their dancing bears  - a tradition going back 300 years to the courts of the Mughal emperors - and accept alternative livelihoods. No bears were bought – their lives were traded in exchange for training the Kalandars in another profession.

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