OS28 – A Genetic Recovery Cascade at Europe’s Southern Edge: 25 Years of the “Hellenic Bear “Register”
Miguel de gabriel Hernando, Alexander Kopatz, Lambros Krambokoukis, Tomaž Skrbinšek At the southernmost edge of the brown bear’s (Ursus arctos) European distribution, Greece hosts a population once considered fragmented and […]
OS19 – Eating the Anthropocene: Brown Bears and the Hidden Threat of Microplastics
Andy Schroeder, Scott Farling, Kenzie Hahne, Kayla West, Tyler Brasington, Melanie Clapham Plastic accounts for approximately 80% of all human-produced waste materials found in marine environments, with approximately 14 million […]
OR38 – Rangewide Perspectives on Sloth Bear Status and Threats by Non-specialist Wildlife Professionals on the Ground
Pratikkumar Desai, Nishith Dharaiya, Thomas Sharp, Dave Garshelis Bear conservation relies heavily on the data and “expert opinions” of specialists. For bear species of Asia, it is rare to elicit […]
OR03 – The genomics of the Apennine brown bear: evolutionary and conservation insights
Andrea Benazzo, Roberto Biello, Paolo Ciucci, Elisa Desiato, Giulia Fabbri, Silvia Fuselli, Carolyn Mahan, Emiliano Trucchi The Apennine brown bear (Ursus arctos marsicanus) is not only an iconic and important […]
OR46 – An effort to standardize English common names of bear species
Hüseyin Ambarli, Carlos Bautista, Rich Beausoleil, Lana Ciarniello, Nishith Dharaiya, Đuro Huber, Matt Hunt, Agnieszka Sergiel, Sandeep Sharma, Ron Swaisgood, Russ Van Horn, Xime Velez-Liendo Most English common names for […]
OR18 – Brown Bear Attacks on Humans in Trentino, the Italian Alps
Giulia Bombieri The Italian Central Alps host a genetically isolated population of brown bears. After the species was considered functionally extinct in the 1990s a reintroduction project was implemented in […]
OS36 – Climbing mountings for the Andean bear.
Merly Lopez, Emi Caceres, Kathy Espin, Felipe Quiñonez, Victor Capulí The “Climbing Mountains for the Andean Bear” (SMOA) project is a participatory environmental education initiative focused on the conservation of […]