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Victor Watkins
Born : Merthyr Tydfil
Saving Bears
Founder of the Libearty Campaign, has dedicated his life to campaigning for bears. Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Victor followed his passion for wildlife by completing a degree at Oxford Brookes University. He immediately joined the International Society for the Protection of Animals, which later emerged to become the World Society for the Protection of Animals.
Realising there was very little work being done for bears, Victor set up the Libearty Campaign in 1991. Initially his campaign focussed on helping to stop the tradition of bear dancing in Greece and Turkey.It expanded to cover the mistreatment of bears worldwide, including overcrowded containment of bears in China and Korea, bear baiting in Pakistan, and bear parks in Japan.
Victor has been instrumental in producing numerous documentary films for the BBC and through international media coverage, on the protection of bears worldwide.
