‘Story of hope’ as teddy bear lost in national park returned to six-year-old

In this photo provided by Ben Pascal, he is seen holding his daughter, Naomi Pascal, with her Teddy at an orphanage in Ethiopia in June 2016. Naomi lost Teddy in Glacier National Park in October 2020, but a park ranger picked it up and had it on the dash in his pickup truck when a family friend spotted it in September 2021. The bear is back with Naomi at her home in Jackson, Wyoming. (Ben Pascal via AP)

A six-year-old girl who lost a special teddy bear she had had since being adopted from an Ethiopian orphanage thought it was gone forever when she forgot it along a trail in a US national park last.

The prized bear was lost in Glacier National Park, Montana, but Naomi’s parents and family friends held on to a glimmer of hope – and hope has won out.