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Bears
Beginning
of the End for the Yellowstone Grizzly?
Doug Peacock, CounterPunch, article — April 2007
I
believe this decision will mark the beginning of the
end of the grizzly in the contiguous states...
Bear
Breeding a Flawed Operation From All Sides
The Hankyoreh, article — November 2006
Breeders have demanded the government classify the bears as a livestock, such
as deer and ostriches, so that they can slaughter them regardless of age. "Bears
are fully adult in four years. After that, I have to raise them six more years,
with feeding costs as much as 800,000 won (US$825) a year," Cho said. The
demand for bear's paws and gall bladders, used in traditional medicine,
is also falling, another blow to Cho's profitability, he said...
Bear's
Fate Sealed Long Before Attack
The Mountain Press, editorial — Animal Sentience, feature — July
2006
The bear's death sentence began when someone
began to feed it, a state wildlife officer said of
what happened in Gatlinburg. He's right. The end
result — the eventual putting down of the bear that attached
the man — makes nobody happy...
The
Life of a Bear
Victor Watkins, Animal Sentience, feature — January
2006
Each bear species has evolved to adapt to
different lifestyles and although there is some specialisation
in the diets of each bear species, the general behaviour
and motivations of all bear species is very similar...
Plight
of the Dancing Bear
Channel 14 News, investigation — November
2005
For 300 years the bear has been kept in
captivity where they are subject to appalling treatment
and during the day made to dance for the crowds...
Illegal
Killing Threatens Hunting
Bill Schneider, New West Travel & Outdoors, commentary — November 2005
Most illegal mortality occurs near roads,
re-emphasizing the fact that building more roads into
backcountry makes grizzly bear recovery more difficult.
We only know about a small percentage of illegal kills,
he reports, but we know more bears die illegally in
roaded areas than in the backcountry...
Bears
Crushed in Cages
Brenda Shoss, feature — May
2005
Over
two decades, the bear grows beyond the bounds of
his cage. Friction wounds scar his face, paws and back.
He gnaws iron bars until most of his teeth fall away.
In "cage crazy" moments, he slams his head
against the metal cell and chews his arms to the
bone. Days turn into years. He waits for nothing,
the sum of his existence on a bear bile farm in China...
Freeing
China's Caged Bile Bears
Kathleen E. McLaughlin, Chronicle Foreign Service, investigation — April 2005
Suddenly, one of the bears reached a paw out of
its cage. Unaware that moon bears, an endangered Asian black
bear species named for the yellow crescent on its chest, are
among the most aggressive of bears, Robinson spontaneously
grabbed the animal's paw and held it...
China Bear Rescue
Animals Asia, Investigation — 2005
"It's a torture
chamber, it's a hell hole for animals. As you can see
they literally can't move, they can't stand up, they
can't turn around, they can just about put their paws
out of the cage to feed themselves"...
An
Interviw with NRDC Grizzly Expert Louisa Willcox
Natural Resource Defense Council, feature — Fall
2004
They're
so smart that they never forget where they got a taste
of a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich. Often, when
they return to the same spot again and again in search
of food, they're eventually killed...
Plight
of the Moon Bear
Jill Robinson, Living on Earth, interview — June
2004
And
they took bears and placed them in tiny wire cages,
again, so small they could hardly move, and began
implanting catheters deep inside their gall bladders,
from which they could then milk bile on a daily basis...
The
Trade in Bear Bile
World Society for the Protection of Animals, investigation — 2000
These
animals endure the most appalling levels of cruelty
and neglect, and attempts to improve standards at two
government-monitored farms in China have not alleviated
even basic animal welfare problems...
Bear
Dreaming
Susanne Hare, essay
Many
indigenous peoples across the continent revere the
bear as the guardian, protector, keeper, and spirit
helper of the North American continent...
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