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 ...

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 ...

If Chengdu has pandas, Bern has bears. Jofelle Tesorio finds out how the Swiss capital and its citizens struggle to keep the bears in the pit while treating them more as important symbols and not ...

Stephen Wood arrives at the gateway to the Bernese Oberland with plenty of respect for the slopes – and for the city's ursine inhabitants.

This year the race moves to a new track in the de facto Swiss capital city of Bern with an interesting feature near the exit of turn 4 – an actual bear pit. Like, a pit. With bears in it.

Bears have been living in the Bear Pit – a top city attraction – since 1857. But the enclosure was long criticised by animal rights activists. As of October 25, the city’s bears have more ...

If Chengdu has pandas, Bern has bears. Jofelle Tesorio finds out how the Swiss capital and its citizens struggle to keep the bears in the pit while treating them more as important symbols and not ...