In South Korea, the Ministry of Environment issued guidelines for the safety of hikers, as moon bears inhabiting the mountainous area of Jirisan are about to end their hibernation, Friday.
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2012 interview, status of bear bile farming today, and an activist’s disappointment
Interview from 2012, Seoul: a casual discussion of some of the nuances and complexity of the bear farming problem South Korea faced and still grapples with despite a phase out being in motion. Listen As of 2017, the Korean gov't, in partnership with the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) sterilized nearly 100,000 …
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Abstract, 2019, dispersal event of re-introduced Moonbear in Korea
Once reaching maturity, individuals of most mammal species typically disperse towards suitable habitats, adequate to their ecological requirements. If the habitat has reached saturation for carrying capacity, these individuals may disperse further to find an adequate habitat. The Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) has been reintroduced on the Korean Peninsula since the early 2000s, and …
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Sharing Natural Habitat with Moon Bears
A welcome image...welcome words NOTE: Thank you for this coverage, thank you to bizwire writerM. H. Lee - a pleasant surprise as the media has not always embraced this matter well. Thank you sincerely. SEJONG, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The paradigm to restore the population of the endangered Asiatic black bear (also known as the Asian …
“Let a bear shit in the woods”
Kelly Frances "Let a bear shit in the woods" - Jill Robinson MBE, Dr med vet hc, Hon LLD Founder & CEO http://www.animalsasia.org The formidable Ms Robinson doesn't mince words, and she has a point, a simple, powerful point: let nature be nature. Refreshingly, her words resonated at a conference on the Sixth Mass Extinction …
SAVING BEARS... 