Bear conservation refers to the management of bears and their habitat with a view to preventing their extinction.
Bears face serious threats on many fronts, most of which are due to human activity. Whether indirect, as in human encroachment on their natural habitats due to crop cultivation, deforestation or timber harvest, or directly from their killing for protection of property or for unregulated or sport hunting, or for their use in primitive medicines and aphrodisiacs.
Read more about Bear Conservation: Management, International Co-operation, IUCN Red List, Regional Variations
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