Overview

• Moscow‑area shelter Zemlya praida says it will fully fund a rescue and accept the two cubs found near Kamchatka’s Zhivovaya Bay.
• The park reports the mother returned after about four days away; the cubs followed briefly before coming back to people, indicating habituation.
• Regional forestry officials describe ground routes as impassable and seas as rough, maintaining contact through a nearby geodesist field camp.
• Authorities ask residents to report sightings and say the cubs have not been consistently located as monitoring continues.
• Officials are weighing removal of the hand‑tame cubs for placement while also probing a poaching theory regarding the mother’s fate.