New Zealand embraces teddies to help make lockdown bear-able

A teddy bear hangs upside down in a window of a house in Christchurch, New Zealand. Hoffman started the Facebook page 'We're Not Scared – NZ Bear Hunt' and also set up a website where more than 120,000 people have now put pins on an online map to show the location of their bears. — AP

WELLINGTON, New Zealand: Some are perched in trees. Some are hanging upside down. Some are baking scones.

Teddy bears are popping up in the unlikeliest of places as New Zealanders embrace an international movement in which people are placing the stuffed animals in their windows during coronavirus lockdowns to brighten the mood and give children a game to play by spotting the bears in their neighbourhoods.