Bear Conservation

Measure aims to extend Oklahoma's bear hunting season State lawmakers are considering a measure that would open Oklahoma’s bear hunting season two weeks early. The bill’s author says it would protect residents from bears encroaching on their property. Wi...

Measure aims to extend Oklahoma's bear hunting season - another US State looking to extend black bear hunting.

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Scientists: Polar Bears Aren’t Preying on Humans, Just Increasing Their Time on Land Headline: Polar Bears Shift Habits: Land Exploration, Not Human Threat Polar bears, often misunderstood as aggressive hunters of humans, are increasingly spendi

Scientists: Polar Bears Aren’t Preying on Humans, Just Increasing Their Time on Land.

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Advocates Reject Proposal to Allow Bear Baiting on National Parklands in Alaska Proposed rule ignores National Park Service obligations to protect wildlife by allowing bear baiting in Denali and Wrangell-St. Elias National Preserves

Advocates Reject Proposal to Allow Bear Baiting on National Parklands in Alaska www.npca.org/articles/113...

We've updated our page on the Mexican black bear.

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SEMARNAT, Grupo Bimbo Launch Black Bear Conservation Effort SEMARNAT and Grupo Bimbo launched a joint conservation initiative to protect the endangered Mexican black bear through the Huellas Program.

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We've published our page on the polar bear exhibit in Leningradsky Zoopark in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Oga Aquaium in Japan are calling for naming suggestions for male cub born 4 Dec 2026. Ballot opens 14 March. The naming ceremony is scheduled for April 25th (Saturday).

Why Canada’s Grizzlies Are at Risk Again and How Tourism Can Help Responsible bear viewing is a powerful tool for instilling advocacy and furthering conservation

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Louisiana ponders big expansion for black bear hunting • Louisiana Illuminator Louisiana officials want to expand black bear hunting grounds to encompass wildlife management areas and private lands across the entire state.

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Should You Snitch On Your Neighbourhood Bear? | The Tyee Some British Columbians worry that reporting will lead to their deaths.

Should You Snitch On Your Neighbourhood Bear? Some British Columbians worry that reporting will lead to their deaths.

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As a caribou herd crashed, wildlife managers turned to killing predators - High Country News Alaska officials hope to protect a struggling caribou herd & bring back a critical subsistence hunt. Critics say the culling program isn't supported by available science.

As a caribou herd crashed, wildlife managers turned to killing predators. When the killing had finished, the agency reported State field workers had gunned down 94 grizzlies, five black bears and five wolves. www.hcn.org/issues/58-3/...

Mongolia launches comprehensive genetic study of critically endangered Gobi Bear

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This is what we know about the polar bear exhibit inthe V.P. Sysoev Priamursky Zoo in Russia.

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【82日目】ホッキョクグマ成長記録32 YouTube video by 男鹿水族館GAO 公式チャンネル

Momo and her male cub, born 4 December 2025. Filmed 25 Feb 2026. One of the sad realities of captive polar bear births. Oga Aquarium, Japan.

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Oga Aquarium (Japan) have announced that Momo's cub is a boy. No name yet.

You can download the new report on Sea World Australia's dolphin & polar bear breeding programmes here: www.bearconservation.org.uk/seaworldbree...

New animal welfare report renews scrutiny of Sea World’s polar bear and dolphin breeding

Australia: New animal welfare report renews scrutiny of Sea World’s polar bear and dolphin breeding.

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For us EVERY DAY is Polar Bear Day!

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Guarding the Way Home of the Formosan Black Bear for 30 Years, Letting Them Roam Freely in the Mountains and Forests Guarding the Way Home of the Formosan Black Bear for 30 Years, Letting Them Roam Freely in the Mountains and Forests

Guarding the Way Home of the Formosan Black Bear for 30 Years, Letting Them Roam Freely in the Mountains and Forests) news.immigration.gov.tw/NewsSection/...

Europe's newest captive polar bear facility is modern and spacious. Lumigny Safari Reserve in France. More in our Directory.

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Kushiro City Zoo, Japan. For polar bears conditions in this facility have not fundamentally changed since a very negative report was published in 2007 by the Animal Concerns Research and Education Society.

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We have just added Perm Zoo, Russia to our Captive Polar Bears Directory. The new exhibit opened in August 2025 and includes female cub Parma, born in 2024.

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The Peak Wildlife Park in the UK now has its own page in our Captive Polar Bear Directory.

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Will these polar bears 'swipe right' on each other? Love at the Madison zoo There's love in the polar bear enclosure. A Madison zoo has introduced two bears as part of the Polar Bear Population Alliance.

"Will these polar bears 'swipe right' on each other? Love at the Madison zoo" We can only hope not! Stop captive polar bear breeding now.

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【68日目】ホッキョクグマ成長記録30 YouTube video by 男鹿水族館GAO 公式チャンネル

Latest video of the cub at Oga Aquarium, born on 4 December 2025

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You're almost certainly forbidden to visit it, but Seversk Zoo has the oldest captive polar bear in Russia. See our new page at www.bearconservation.org.uk/captive-pola...

【67日目】ホッキョクグマ成長記録29　赤ちゃん初お目見え！ YouTube video by 男鹿水族館GAO 公式チャンネル

Latest video of Momo and her cub from Oga Aquarium (67 days old). In the wild the cub would still be snug and warm in the snow den.

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Arctic Titans in Freefall: The Fight to Save Polar Bears as Ice Disappears From Hudson Bay to the Chukchi Sea, meet 19 polar bear groups and the people racing to protect them as ice disappears.

Arctic Titans in Freefall: The Fight to Save Polar Bears as Ice Disappears

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Polar bear Peace now has her own page in our Captive Polar Bears Directory.

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Zoorasia Yokohama, Japan has announced that 21 year old male polar bear Gogo died 8 Feb while under anaesthetic for sperm harvesting prior to transfer to another zoo. He went into arrest after the 5th round of harvesting & could not be revived. Time to STOP the captive breeding of polar bears