LONDON, December 13. /TASS/. A two-part series by Scottish wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan telling the story of the Orphaned Bear Rescue Center in the Tver Region and the Pazhetnov family who work there will air on BBC Two on December 18-19, Buchanan posted on Twitter on Thursday.
Buchanan has several times come to the village of Bubonitsy, in the Tver Region, where the IFAW Bear Rescue Center is based.
The film, called 'Grizzly Bear Cubs and Me', is about three sets of orphaned cubs whom the staff of the center feed and return back to the wild. Cubs Slava and Pasha were found in a bin near Moscow, while Tolya and the Tyoma were found in a box outside a veterinary hospital in St Petersburg, and Zhenya and Zhora’s mother was scared away by loggers.
For 23 years, the Pazhetnovs released 229 cubs.
While working on the film, Buchanan helped feed the cubs with a special milk mixture, washed them and even tried to teach them to climb trees. The Scottish filmmaker made over a dozen of films about wild animals alone, shot in Africa, the Canadian Arctic, the Amazon jungle and New Guinea, and many other remote places of the world.