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Polar bears near Churchill. Image by Kt Miller / polarbearsinternational.org.

Manage people more and bears less, say Indigenous elders in world’s ‘polar bear capital’

Gabe Allen 29 May 2025
Inside the human-bear conflict in northern India

Inside the human-bear conflict in northern India

Shaz Syed 21 May 2025
Banner image of the rescued bears, courtesy of Free the Bears.

Three moon bears rescued in first closure of Laos bile farm

Kristine Sabillo 22 Apr 2025
Eurasian brown bear courtesy of Magnus Lundgren/Swedensbigfive.org.

Coexistence with Europe’s carnivores is possible (commentary)

John Linnell 10 Apr 2025
Polar bears give birth in dens beneath the snow where the cubs remain for many months; their emergence from dens marks a crucial period during which the cubs acclimatize to the harsh environment in the Arctic. Image by K T Miller/Polar Bears International.

Rare polar bear cub footage offers crucial conservation insights

Abhishyant Kidangoor 2 Apr 2025

Mysterious sloth bear deaths raise alarm at Sri Lanka’s largest national park

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Mar 2025

Camera traps reveal first jaguar in northwestern Ecuador forests in years

Kristine Sabillo 31 Dec 2024
A captive Tibetan brown bear.

New brown bear ‘stronghold’ in Nepal redraws species’ range map

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Oct 2024
Eurasian lynx, courtesy of Parc Zoologique de Paris.

Sweden’s ‘nature friendly’ reputation is being shot to pieces (commentary)

Misha Istratov 4 Sep 2024

Patents can serve as early-warning system for wildlife trade trends

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2024
Eurasian brown bear courtesy of Magnus Lundgren/Swedensbigfive.org.

Sweden greenlights hunt of nearly 500 bears, a fifth of total population

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Aug 2024
Dholes (Cuon alpinus) are wild canids that range throughout South, Central, East and Southeast Asia. They are listed as endangered, with fewer than 2,500 adults remaining in the wild. Image by Davidvraju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In 2023, Nepal’s ‘uncelebrated’ wildlife continued wait for attention

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Dec 2023
Sloth bear in Nepal

No safe space for Nepal’s sloth bears outside protected areas, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Nov 2023
Sun bear

Conservationists look to defy gloomy outlook for Borneo’s sun bears

Carolyn Cowan 31 Oct 2023
Formosan black bears. Image courtesy of Yushan National Park.

Endangered Formosan black bears caught in Taiwanese ‘snaring crisis’ (commentary)

Gregory McCann 2 Oct 2023

Barely making it: A conversation with ‘Eight Bears’ author Gloria Dickie

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Sep 2023
Dickie holds a polar bear skull in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

‘We will decide their future’: Q&A with “pro-bear” environmental journalist Gloria Dickie

Jeremy Hance 11 Jul 2023
A spectacled bear.

Learning to live with — and love — bears and eagles in Colombia’s cloud forest

James Hall 8 Jun 2023
A resting gray wolf (Canis lupus). Photo by Gary Kramer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Montana cannot be trusted with grizzly bear & wolf management (commentary)

Lara Birkes 1 May 2023
A humpback whale.

Indigenous funding model is a win-win for ecosystems and local economies in Canada

Spoorthy Raman 10 Mar 2023
Pits dug by the bears.

Of Yetis and extinct turtles: Top wildlife discoveries in Nepal in 2022

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Dec 2022
Pits dug by the bears.

It’s no Yeti, but Tibetan brown bear’s presence in Nepal is no longer a myth

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Oct 2022
Andean bear captured in a camera trap a the Qeros-Wachiperi Conservation Concession, part of study to determine the bear’s habitat preferences. The bears altitudinal range goes from 200 to 4000 meters above sea level. Photo: Conservación Amazónica ACCA.

How bears “make” a forest (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 30 Sep 2022
binturong

Enigmatic binturong photographed in Nepal for the first time

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Sep 2022

With sea ice melting, glacial ice could be a lifeline for polar bears

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Jun 2022
Grizzly bear in British Columbia, Canada. Image courtesy of Anthony Bucci.

First Nation reclaims territory by declaring Indigenous protected area in Canada

Erica Gies 6 Jun 2022
A giant panda, a species endemic to China, which has benefited from extensive conservation funding and efforts.

Lessons from panda conservation could help Asia’s other, overlooked, bears

Spoorthy Raman 9 May 2022
WFFT rescue

Tiger and bear rescue spotlights captive wildlife tourism woes in Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 10 Mar 2022

The secret bears of Bolivia’s lost dry forests

Claire Wordley 9 Jun 2021

Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary

Gloria Dickie 29 Apr 2021
A mother brown bear and her two cubs in the Gästrikland region of Sweden. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

As predators return to Sweden’s wild, ecotourism looks to change mindsets

Johan Augustin 2 Oct 2020

The vanishing trails of Sri Lanka’s sloth bears (Commentary)

Ranil P. Nanayakkara 26 Sep 2020

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