GENEVA — Bern’s Bear Pit, for centuries a tourist attraction and a symbol of the city, has lost its last resident to euthanasia and will be closed for good. Pedro, a 28-year-old brown bear ...

Bern's Bear Pit, for centuries a tourist attraction and a symbol of the city, has lost its last resident, 28-year-old Pedro, to euthanasia and will be closed for good.

GENEVA — Bern’s Bear Pit, for centuries a tourist attraction and a symbol of the city, has lost its last resident to euthanasia and will be closed for good. Pedro, a 28-year-old brown bear ...

After nearly 500 years in a pit, Bern's famous bears are to get a new home - a riverside reserve on the edge of the old city. With luck, the park will open in 2007, bringing to an end years of ...

What most people don’t do is carve time for Bern, Switzerland’s federal (rather than capital) city which boasts a medieval ...

After perching on a wall above the pit, a 25-year-old man jumped in, seemingly about to endure a horrendous death in front of visitors enjoying a day out at Switzerland's Bern Bear Park.

He’s eager to talk about Bern’s bear pit, a 6,000sqm plot in the heart of the city where three brown bears have lived since 2009. But he almost boils over with excitement when I ask about the ...

The new park with a total of 6,000 square meters, was built to replace the old bear pit ... in the Daellhoelzli Zoo in Bern November 27, 2009. Two young bears where brought as a present ...

After perching on a wall above the pit, a 25-year-old man jumped in, seemingly about to endure a horrendous death in front of ...

The £20million bear park had been open just weeks when gruesome scenes unfolded in front of terrified onlookers. After perching on a wall above the pit, a 25-year-old man jumped in, seemingly ...