Rescuing India's Tortured Dancing Bears - Kartick Satyanarayan

The best conservation programs strike a delicate balance between condemning a practice that abuses and endangers animals, but doesn't leave people hungry or without an income. Kartick Satyanarayan, co-founder of Wildlife SOS, shares the story of one of his group's biggest conservation successes when they were able to wean a small community off the brutal practice of creating "dancing bears" for tourism that was endangering local sloth bear populations. Satyanarayan's group offered financial and educational inducements to help the group create a conservation-based economy around saving the bears they once abused. Satyanarayan explains that he hopes to replicate the model in similar communities.