Polar Bear mum and cubs arrive at Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Flocke and her three cubs are settling in the second Project Polar reserve, after the move to Yorkshire from France was recommended as the best home for them by the European Endangered Species Programme (EEP). At 18 months old the youngsters are now growing up and are likely to be lively additions to the Park. Flocke, aged 12, and her triplets - males Indiana, (known as Indie) and Yuma, and tiny female Tala – will live separately to the park’s resident males who live in the 10-acre Project Polar 1 – Nobby, Luka, Hamish and Sisu. The new arrivals bring the park’s polar bear total up to eight, which makes Project Polar the largest polar bear centre outside Canada. Project Polar is a dynamic project that brings together Polar bear welfare, conservation and awareness and research to benefit the species in the wild and advance welfare in zoos and wildlife parks. Surviving triplets are extremely rare in polar bears but Flocke has followed her ancestors’ genes to become the fourth generation to pro