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Navigating human-sloth bear encounters and attacks in Nepal’s unprotected forests

Environmental Challenges
Human-sloth bear conflict is a recurring issue in multi-use forest landscapes outside protected areas (PAs). In Nepal’s southern region, sloth bears are a major contributor to human-wildlife conflict, yet comprehensive information to inform conflict ...
Manoj Pokharel, Chandramani Aryal, Bidhan Adhikary, Jeevan Rai   +3 more
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Effects of environmental conditions on the use of forward‐looking infrared for bear den detection in the Alaska Arctic

Conservation Science and Practice, 2020
Industrial off‐road activity in winter overlaps denning habitat of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) and grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) in the North Slope oilfields of Alaska (United States).
Nils J. Pedersen, Todd J. Brinkman, Richard T. Shideler, Craig J. Perham   +3 more
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Identifying Himalayan brown bear (Ursus arctos isabellinus) conservation areas in Lahaul Valley, Himachal Pradesh

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Large carnivores that occur in low densities, particularly in the high-altitude areas are globally threatened because of habitat loss and anthropogenic disturbances.
Amira Sharief, Bheem Dutt Joshi, Vineet Kumar, Manish Kumar, Ritam Dutta, Chandra Maya Sharma, Avantika Thapa, Hemant Singh Rana, Tanoy Mukherjee, Ashutosh Singh, Mukesh Thakur, Lalit Kumar Sharma, Kailash Chandra   +12 more
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Stochasticity in natural forage production affects use of urban areas by black bears: implications to management of human-bear conflicts. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
The rapid expansion of global urban development is increasing opportunities for wildlife to forage and become dependent on anthropogenic resources.
Sharon Baruch-Mordo, Kenneth R Wilson, David L Lewis, John Broderick, Julie S Mao, Stewart W Breck   +5 more
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Patterns of spatial distribution, diel activity and human-bear conflict of Ursus thibetanus in the Hindu Kush mountains, Pakistan

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022
The Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) is an elusive mammal and its conservation is currently a challenge in Pakistan due to the negative interaction with human communities and habitat fragmentation.
Faizan Ahmad, Muhammad Ali Nawaz, Mohammad Salim, Muhammad Rehan, Mohammad Farhadinia, Luciano Bosso, Muhammad Kabir   +6 more
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Temporal dynamics of human-polar bear conflicts in Churchill, Manitoba

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Identifying factors that influence human-wildlife conflicts is essential to the management of these interactions. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) come into conflict with humans and these conflicts may become more frequent as the bears spend more time on ...
Sarah Heemskerk, Amy C. Johnson, Daryll Hedman, Vicki Trim, Nicholas J. Lunn, David McGeachy, Andrew E. Derocher   +6 more
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Conservation and management of the culture of bears

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Culture is widely accepted as an important social factor present across a wide range of species. Bears have a culture as defined as behavioral traditions inherited through social learning usually from mothers to offspring.
Christopher Servheen, Kerry A. Gunther
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The Status and Spatial Patterns of Poaching, Illegal Trade, and Human–Bear Conflict of Asiatic Black Bears in China, 2010–2020

Diversity
Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) are a large carnivore, widely distributed in East, South, and Southeast Asia. However, they have experienced dramatic population decline across this range due to various anthropogenic threats.
Shuzhi Long, Sheng Li
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Might macronutrient requirements influence grizzly bear–human conflict? Insights from nutritional geometry

Ecosphere, 2016
Knowledge of carnivore nutritional requirements offers a potentially powerful aid for conservation and management strategies, yet has received little attention.
Sean C. P. Coogan, David Raubenheimer
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“It's Just a Matter of Time:” Lessons from Agency and Community Responses to Polar Bear-inflicted Human Injury

Conservation & Society, 2018
Bear-inflicted human injuries or deaths are often widely publicised, controversial, and evoke substantial social responses that articulate public expectations about bear management. In this paper, we examine how local people and management agencies (i.e.
Aimee L Schmidt, Douglas A Clark
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