A CHARITY supporting bears across the world has received a cash boost thanks to customers of a rope-based business.
The Winton Foundation for the Welfare of Bears was backed by Buy Rope, which marked International Polar Bear Day by donating a full day of profits, £107, to the good cause.
The Tranent-based foundation was launched in 2010 and works to raise awareness and collect funds to support projects around the world to help eight species of bears, including polar bears.
Lesley Winton, founder and director of the Winton Foundation for the Welfare of Bears, said: “The polar bear organisations we have supported in the past have been Polar Bears International and Cochrane Bear Habitat.”
International Polar Bear Day is an event launched by Polar Bear International with the aim of raising awareness of the danger climate change is posing on the Arctic animals.
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