Guns offer no increased protection against bears
Rightly or wrongly the bears of Northern America have a reputation of being aggressive and dangerous. Some people choose to carry guns to defend themselves but the facts are guns offer no additional...
View ArticleChinese police on the hunt for bear poachers
When Chinese wildlife blogger, Hu Donglin, heard that there were remains of bears in the hills and forests of Jilin Province in China he decided to head out and look for evidence. After posting...
View ArticleLast chance to become a globe trotting panda lover
This weekend is the final chance to enter the Pambassador 2012 competition with the amazing prize of spending a year with the pandas of Chengdu Breeding Center. This year will also see the prize...
View ArticleTao Tao tastes freedom as first trained panda is released to the wild
The first panda to be captive bred and specifically trained to return to the wild has been released today in the Liziping nature reserve in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. It is the first time a...
View ArticleRescued bears find new home for Christmas
Three European brown bears are looking forward to Christmas as they are moved from cramped and rusty cages at Onesti Zoo to an open and semi-wild environment at a sanctuary funded by the World Society...
View ArticleBear permit set back for Lynn Rogers
World renown bear researcher Lynn Rogers is reported to be devastated that his permits to study black bears in Minnesota has been severely restricted. The number of bears he is to be permitted to...
View ArticleWill forest reforms be bad news for giant pandas?
The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is probably the most iconic of all endangered species, it has played a staring role since the beginning of the wildlife conservation industry and billions of...
View ArticlePolar bears, elephants and rhinos fail to get backing from CITES officials
The Convention in Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) Secretariat have released their recommendations to the Convention of Parties (CoP) who will be meeting next month in Bangkok. They have rejected...
View ArticleLonely koala finds a new home
It’s an image that has been making the rounds on the internet for the last couple of weeks. A lonely koala bear that went out for the day and came back only to discover that his home in a pine forest...
View ArticleBear Family and Me researcher ordered to shut down research
Dr Lyn Rogers who was introduced to the UK public through the BBC series Bear Family and Me has been ordered to shut down his research on black bears. He has been given until the end of July to track...
View ArticleVietnamese authorities need to enforce the law
A five year old boy in Vietnam has paid a high price for his uncle’s refusal to hand over a moon bear for releasing back into the wild. The 5 year old boy was left alone with the caged wild animal and...
View ArticleAnother killing in Bear Family and Me
Sadly another bear from the family of black bears featured in the BBC documentary Bear Family and Me has been killed by a hunter. Two years ago, almost to the day, the bear cub Hope was killed and now...
View ArticleDNA reveals Ceausescu’s jet-setting bears
A DNA study of brown bears in Eastern Europe has revealed that Ceausescu’s Romania is the source of brown bear populations in some eastern European countries. While no documentary evidence remains of...
View ArticleChinese state begins to move out of bear bile farming
A Chinese government owned company is handing over its bear bile farm to an animal welfare group. The group plans to convert the farm in the southern Guangxi region’s capital Nanning into a bear...
View ArticleIndia launches specialist team to protect sloth bears
After a recent surge in poaching of sloth bears the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has set up a special investigation team to track down the poachers and traders involved. The team has been drawn from...
View ArticleParts of 2800 bears seized in Asia over a 12-year period
A new TRAFFIC analysis of hundreds of seizures sounds the alarm on Asia’s ongoing widespread bear trade and the need for immediate international action. The findings are published in Brought to Bear:...
View ArticleBear bile farming surges in Lao PDR
The number of bears held in bear bile farms in the Peoples Democratic Republic of Lao has surged in recent years. In 2008 there were just 40 bears held captive but by 2012 the number had tripled to...
View ArticleNew report examines $2 billion bear trade
A new report assessing the $2 billion a year trade in bears and their parts reveals the scale of the illegal trade. Produced by Interpol the report demonstrates some of the methods that illegal...
View ArticlePanda poaching culprits busted by China
Forestry officials and police in Yunnan province of China have busted a 10 member gang of people involved in the killing and butchering of an endangered panda bear in Southern China. he raid by...
View ArticleBulgarian Tourism ministry promotes shooting protected species
Follow the advice of the Bulgarian Tourism Ministry and your hunting holiday in the country could be a lot longer than anticipated. On brochures handed out at the Green Days Festival in Sophia the...
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