Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan Compiled by ... - Wildpro

• Link bears to ecosystem health and human community
prosperity in countries within the range of each species
with projects that focus on the needs of bears, humans
and their shared resources.
• Study the relationship of forest harvest to sun bear and
spectacled bear food habits and habitat use in tropical
forests where harvest pressure is high and where the
impacts of harvest are unknown.
• Work with local wildlife managers to develop sound
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research programs, population survey techniques, and
sustainable harvest plans in eastern European countries
such as Romania and Bulgaria.
This action plan attempts to summarize a vast amount of
information. It details much of what we know about bears,
but the gaps clearly show what we do not know and where
we need to place our conservation efforts in the future if we
are to stop the decline of bear populations worldwide.