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Blog Archive for December 2013

Happy New Year from the Great Bear Foundation

December 30th, 2013

Happy New Year! Thank you for supporting the Great Bear Foundation in our work to protect bears and their habitats world-wide, through education and on-the-ground projects. Your continued support will help us to work with communities to prevent human-bear conflict, to provide high quality educational programs to schools and community groups, and to keep the… Read the complete post or our blog for all news.

Happy Holidays from the Great Bear Foundation

December 20th, 2013

As 2013 comes to a close, we’d like to thank you for supporting the Great Bear Foundation, and our work conserving the world’s eight bear species and their habitats, though education and on-the-ground conservation projects. GBF is a member-supported, volunteer-driven organization, and we strive to keep our overhead costs low, so that donations, grants, and… Read the complete post or our blog for all news.

Andean bears love to play with cameras

December 10th, 2013

Andean bears love to play with cameras! At least that’s what scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) recently learned after collecting images from a set of remote camera traps. The cameras were placed within Bolivia’s Apolobamba National Natural Area of Integrated Management and captured a series of stop-action images of a group of Andean… Read the complete post or our blog for all news.

North to Polar Bear Country

November 7th, 2013

It’s that time of year again, and the Great Bear Foundation is getting ready to head north to polar bear country! Each summer, when the sea ice breaks up on Hudson Bay, the polar bears swim to shore and spend the summer dispersed across the tundra along the Hudson Bay coast. The Hudson Bay and… Read the complete post or our blog for all news.

So Many Apples

September 9th, 2013

By Monica Perez-Watkins, Bears & Apples Coordinator It’s almost fall and apples are ripening, especially in the Rattlesnake where they are the number one bear attractant (Merkle, Krausman, and Booth 2011). In fact, if you look at the map of bear conflicts in Missoula (http://missoulabears.org/resources/maps.html), the Rattlesnake appears as a massive glob of bear incidents…. Read the complete post or our blog for all news.