Bear Conservation

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

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

Feds delay finalizing Yellowstone, Lower 48 grizzly bear plans until December • Daily Montanan Court filing cites change of administration, government shutdown and ‘highly complex nature of grizzly bear rulemaking’ as reasons for postponing final rule.

Feds delay finalizing Yellowstone, Lower 48 grizzly bear plans until December

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Black bears would gain state protection, furbearer season under House bill • Iowa Capital Dispatch Lawmakers seek to end the “open season” on black bears by designating them a fur-bearing animal in the state.

Black bears would gain state protection, furbearer season under House bill iowacapitaldispatch.com/briefs/black...

YouTube video by 男鹿水族館GAO 公式チャンネル 【56日目】ホッキョクグマ成長記録27

The latest video of Momo and her cub at Oga Aquarium in Japan.

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Taiwan reminds travelers of fines for importing bear meat from Japan | Taiwan News | Feb. 4, 2026 15:19 Application process lasts up to 4 weeks | Feb. 4, 2026 15:19

Taiwan reminds travelers of fines for importing bear meat from Japan
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Sweden and the brown bear hunt Analysis of the controversial brown bear hunt in Sweden: How decades of protection are being abandoned, why animal rights activists are warning, and what legal and ecological issues exist

Sweden and the brown bear hunt is not a "success story" of species conservation in the general sense, but rather an example of how populations can recover while politicians simultaneously try to push large predators to minimum targets and conflicts persist.

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Polar bear Maruru has moved zoo in Japan to Kushiro City Zoo. She has a new page on our website too.

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Moon bear rescued after more than 25 years in captivity

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Kali has arrived at Detroit Zoo in the USA and now has his own page on our website.
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Detroit, Toledo zoos exchange male polar bears as part of breeding effort The Detroit Zoo and the Toledo Zoo have exchanged the care of two polar bears as part of an effort to support breeding populations among zoo habitats.

Detroit, Toledo zoos exchange male polar bears as part of breeding effort.

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Toledo Zoo welcomes Nuka the polar bear Toledo Zoo's 27-year-old female bear Crystal has received a breeding recommendation

Toledo Zoo & Aquarium welcomes Nuka the polar bear spectrumnews1.com/oh/cincinnat...

Are polar bears in Svalbard getting fatter from climate change? Ice melt could be temporarily helping polar bears hunt more efficiently, but scientists say it may soon hinder populations.

Polar bears are using ice loss to their advantage. But scientists warn it won’t last for long www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...

YouTube video by 男鹿水族館GAO 公式チャンネル 【53日目】ホッキョクグマ成長記録25

Latest images of Momo's polar bear cub in Oga Aquarium, Japan.

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YouTube video by Conic The Shepherd and the Bear - official trailer

Set in the French Pyrenees, THE SHEPHERD & THE BEAR follows a traditional shepherding community where brown bears are being reintroduced. Whose side are you on - the farmers, the politicians and ecologists or, caught in the middle, the bears? Trailer at youtu.be/IkKgtOxcocU
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Wisconsin will issue the most licenses ever recorded for this fall's bear hunt Wisconsin hunters will have a better chance to harvest black bears this fall due to a record number of licenses and higher quota approved Wednesday by the state’s Natural Resources Board.

Wisconsin will issue the most licenses ever recorded for this fall’s bear hunt. State wildlife regulators will issue more than 15K licenses to bear hunters.

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Polar bears getting Scientists think that Svalbard bears have adapted to recent ice loss by eating more land-based prey.

Polar bears on Norwegian islands fatter and healthier despite ice loss, scientists say.

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Proposed August black bear hunt draws mixed reactions in Pemberton as conflicts fall to decade low The provincial conservation service killed 178 bears over public safety concerns and euthanized 33 in 2025—the lowest since online records began in 2011

Proposed August black bear hunt draws mixed reactions in Pemberton as conflicts fall to decade low www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/p...

Chicago's Brookfield Zoo leads effort to protect polar bears as Trump opens Arctic refuge to oil drilling Shortly after her arrival last fall, Amelia Gray met Hudson, and the pair hit it off immediately. They touched their noses together in greeting and chuffed—a soft, breathy, snorting sound that signals...

Chicago's Brookfield Zoo leads effort to protect polar bears as Trump opens Arctic refuge to oil drilling

(BC comment: because a zoo is SO like the ANWR?!!!)

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Sundance Review: Nuisance Bear is a Visually Stunning Look at a Polar Bear’s Impeded Journey Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman’s Nuisance Bear is an expansion of their 2021 short film of the same name, which followed a polar bear on its annual migration through Churchill, Manitoba, the “P...

Sundance Review: Nuisance Bear is a Visually Stunning Look at a Polar Bear’s Impeded Journey.

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Save the polar bear: range countries have approved a protection plan until 2028.

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Another captive polar bear who recently moved home is Amelia Gray. She now has her own page on our website, complete with photograph and video.

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New home - new page. Kara is on our website.

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The excellent Ranua Wildlife Park in Finland has two new resident polar bears in its upgraded polar bear exhibit. For more see www.bearconservation.org.uk/captive-pola...

Coexistence between humans and Marsican brown bears: a possible way forward comes from genetics - Salviamo l'Orso

Coexistence between humans and Marsican brown bears: a possible way forward comes from genetics.

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New polar bear makes a splash at Oregon Zoo's Polar Passage habitat A new resident has arrived at the Oregon Zoo's Polar Passage habitat: Kallik, a three-year-old polar bear from the Saint Louis Zoo.

New polar bear makes a splash at Oregon Zoo's Polar Passage habitat

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Reward increased to $15,000 for tips about grizzly bear killed illegally in Idaho • Idaho Capital Sun Following an investigation, officials in Idaho determined the protected grizzly bear was not posing a threat when it was shot.

Reward increased to $15,000 for tips about grizzly bear killed illegally in Idaho

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Nina goes back to the wild - Salviamo l'Orso

In Italy Nina goes back to the wild.

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