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 of China, Manchuria, Siberia, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. The usual...

The Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus or Selenarctos thibetanus), also known as the Tibetan black bear, the Himalayan black bear, or the moon bear, is a medium sized, sharp-clawed, black-coloured bear with a distinctive white or cream "V" marking on...

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.Wild bears, known as Asiatic black bears and Sun bears, continue to be hunted...

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, an environmental group said Friday.Cambodia has the largest remaining lowland evergreen forest in mainland Southeast Asia, home...

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 India to Indonesia, has been classified as vulnerable by the World Conservation Union."We estimate that sun bears...

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 India to Indonesia, has been classified as vulnerable by the World Conservation Union."We estimate that sun bears...