Bears

Grizzly Bear Facts
An aggressive omnivore, Grizzly bears are basically solitary animals that attack only when provoked. Here are some interesting Grizzly bear facts, which would help you to get an insight into their behavior and way of life in the wild.

Hikers in Bavaria Get to Follow His Trail After Bear Gets the Bullet
In life, he bounded around the Alps pursued by all manner of hunters, apparently oblivious to the headlines he was making as the first bear to be sighted in the wild in Germany for 170 years.

Rejected at Birth, Knut Becomes Berlin Zoo's Bear Essential
Schoolchildren and world media flock to see celebrity who has his own webcam and podcast.

Italy Battles to Save the Last of Its Wild Bears
Conservationists are examining the initial results of an emergency programme to save central Italy's last few bears from poachers and poisons. The WWF (formerly the World Wide Fund for Nature) launched its project in the Apennine highland region after a senior forestry official told a...

Mortally Wounded, Hunted Bear Cub Staggers Onto NJ Highway
New Jersey's first bear hunt in 33 years started this week, and the kill may reach 500 before its scheduled end on Saturday. Many bears were killed without any witnesses, but there was one victim whose hapless circumstance told volumes of the cruelty of this hunt.

Last Minute Plea To Halt NJ Bear Hunt
Following a federal judge's ruling stopping a decades-old pheasant hunt in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, bear advocates in New Jersey have asked national park officials to intervene to prevent the planned bear hunt in the state for similar reasons.

Captive Bears In Japan Exploited, Mistreated
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and the Japanese animal welfare group, All Life In A Viable Environment (ALIVE), are reporting substandard conditions in Japan's eight bear parks.

Wild Animals Adapt to Life in America's Backyards
There are bears moving into the suburbs of New Jersey, and raccoons making their homes in Los Angeles.

Bear hunting
Redneck hunting trip. These two old boys asked to borrow my hunting camp up in the...

Study: Wide-Roaming Carnivores Can’t Bear Zoo Captivity
A groundbreaking study published on October 1 has found that wild animals such as polar bears, lions and tigers are not suited to a life in captivity.

Bear Hunt Set To Go Ahead in New Jersey
For the first time since 1970, New Jersey’s Fish and Game Council has voted 8-1 to allow a legal bear hunt in the state to help control the growing bear population.

Sow At Pig Breeding Firm Bears 27 Piglets
Animal welfare experts in the UK are disturbed by the news that an "experimental" sow referred to as "P1818" gave birth last month to 27 piglets - the largest litter in history.

Bear facts
A polar bear cub that was rescued after its mother was killed by hunters has made headlines across Canada, but global warming means that other members of his species may not be so lucky, writes Anne McIlroy

Grizzly bears targeted to protect G8
Security for the world's most powerful politicians is difficult enough these days. There are the constant threat of al-Qaeda fanatics and hordes of anti-globalisation protesters hammering at the barricades.