Asiatic Black Bear
The Asiatic black bear or moon bear (Ursus thibetanus) ranges through southern and eastern Asia, from Afghanistan and Pakistan through the Himalayas to Indochina, including most o...
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Park rangers in Cambodia are being trained to survey wild bears to help protect them from being hunted for their bile which is used in traditional Chinese medicines, a conservationist said Thursday...
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More than 20 Cambodian rangers are being trained with methods
for surveying the presence of bears and on the situation facing bears
in Cambodian forests, according to a statement released Wed...
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Oslo/Stockholm (dpa) - December weather conditions in Sweden were
unusually mild as was apparent by bushes and flowers sprouting buds
as if it were spring, the Swedish Meteo...
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Top government officials and tycoons in Cambodia, including the prime minister's relatives, are illegally cutting down the country's dwindling forests while foreign donors do little to stop them, a...
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The world's smallest bear species faces extinction because of deforestation and poaching in its Southeast Asian home, a conservation group said Monday.The sun bear, whose habitat stretches from Ind...
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OSLO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Six of the world's eight bear
species are under threat of extinction after the addition on
Monday of the sun bear, the world's smallest type of bear, to a
"Red List" which...
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The world's smallest bear species faces extinction because of deforestation and poaching in its Southeast Asian home, a conservation group said Monday.The sun bear, whose habitat stretches from Ind...
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Tokyo's Ueno Zoo will start exhibiting an Asiatic black bear in
hibernation in such a way that visitors can see it directly, becoming
the first zoo in Japan to do so.
Last winter, Ueno Zoo...
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Fukuda unveils post-Kyoto climate plan, eyes nat'l emission targets
DAVOS, Switzerland - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said
Saturday Japan is committed to cutting greenhou...
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SINGAPORE, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Smuggled overseas from
China's far-flung bear farms, bear bile eye drops and remedies
can be bought at traditional Chinese medicine shops the world
over. The amber-br...
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