Chinese Shopping Centre Guangzhou

A global campaign to free the world's "saddest polar bear" from a Chinese shopping centre has gathered one million signatures, rights groups said, as a new video of the wretched-looking creature sparked fresh outrage.

Shortly after the death of 'world's saddest polar bear' Arturo, another bear has been given the same title after a video of the hapless animal lying listlessly on the floor of its enclosure in a Chinese shopping centre began circulating online.

A global campaign to free the world's "saddest polar bear" from a Chinese shopping centre has gathered one million signatures, rights groups said, as a new video of the wretched-looking creature sparked fresh outrage.

Shortly after the death of 'world's saddest polar bear' Arturo, another bear has been given the same title after a video of the hapless animal lying listlessly on the floor of its enclosure in a Chinese shopping centre began circulating online.