Laura Saunders and Siew Te Wong The Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre (BSBCC) located in Sabah, Malaysia operatesthrough five pillars: animal welfare, rehabilitation, education and outreach, ecotourism andresearch. Although the centre offers optimal…
Mackenzie Clarke First Nations in southwest B.C. have long revered the grizzly bear as a steward of the landscapeand a vital resource for their communities. Indigenous people, maintain a close relationshipwith these bears…
Beth Rosenberg, Mu Zhou, Nathan Wolf, Bradley P. Harris, Alexander Mathis The importance of distinguishing between individuals of a species is critical for answering arange of biological and ecological questions. Despite current success…
Denise Mateo, Russell C. Van Horn, Rebecca Zug Individual bears vary in body size and condition, which reflect habitat quality, and can influencetheir ability to reproduce. Most reports of body size and condition…
Jonas Kindberg, Matthew Grainger, Erlend Nilsen Effective conservation of the Swedish brown bear population has led to a significant increase inpopulation size and distribution. Estimates indicate a growth from 130 individuals a century…
Pierre Dupont, Cyril Milleret, Richard Bischof 1.Population recovery can be a drawn-out process, characterized not only by growingabundance and expanding range, but also changes in demographic structure. Due to sexdifferences in vital rates…
Sophie Fowler Using a long-term camera trap dataset collected over the past 14 years with >5,000independent grizzly bear detections, this project aims to analyze how Pacific salmon(Oncorhynchus spp.) returns affect grizzly bear (Ursus…
Melanie Clapham, Emily Doyle-Yamaguchi, Gina Thomas, Caelan McLean, StanleyBeans, Chip Mountain, Shane Pollard, Anthony Roberts, Jordan Benner Tasked with the huge challenge of conserving nature in a changing world, decision makers areturning to…
Emily Puckett and Alexander Kopatz Habitat loss and fragmentation have impacted populations of all bear species, and oftencontribute to population decline. This direct loss can be further influenced through lost geneticdiversity. Genetic diversity…
Todd Atwood Species recovery plans typically list the set of factors considered when determiningconservation status, along with clearly defined objectives and actions to meet recovery criteria.For example, species are afforded federal protection under…
