| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Bear basics / Lisa Kemmerer -- Bear-aware for twenty years / Victor Watkins -- Making a differnce for bears in Asia / Amy Corrigan -- Polar bears : watching extinction in real time / Kassie Siegel and Brendan Cummings -- Franzi : beloved ambassador for bears on bile farms / Jill Robinson -- Little bears, big trees, tiny insects : protecting sun bears and their rainforest / Siew Te Wong and Lisa Kemmerer -- Libearty sanctuary zarnesti : sharing love and sheltering life in Eastern Europe / Cristina Lapis -- 9,540,000 square miles, 800,000 American black bears, 3 rescues go / Charlotte Lorraine Cressey -- Fighting for giant pandas : captive breeding and conservation / Sarah M. Bexell -- Bear Baiting in Apkistan / Fakhar-i-Abbas : dirty dancing : caring for sloth bears in India / Lisa Kemmerer -- Sliding down mountainsides on my butt ins earch of the elusive Andean Bear / Dalma Zsalako -- Finding Enrico : protecting Andean bears and their habitat / Lisa Kemmerer, Keny Fugett, and Simana Kobel -- Brown Bears, salmon, people : traveling upstream to a sustainable future / Chris Darimont [and five others] -- Cleaning up a community for black bears / Mick Webb -- U.S. wildlife agencies : outdated, misguided, and destructive / Lisa Kemmerer -- The assignment : braking laws to build laws on behalf of Lake Tahoe's little blak bears / Ann Bryant -- A grizzly battle : government agencies, endangered species, and the U.S. legal system / Tara Zuardo -- Panda preservation 2.0 : shifting gears to save a species / Anna Beech and Marc Brody -- Canary in the arctic / Lisa Kemmerer -- Bears, birds, and human hubris : imagining bears in the Andes / Thomas Regele -- The damage and hope of total institutions : visiting a bear sanctuary in Cambodia / Lisa Kemmerer and Daniel KIrjne -- Bear naked : compassion and wilderness / Dana Medora |
| Summary |
What is it like to rehabilitate sun bears in the rainforests of Malaysia? Why were sloth bears trained to dance? What does Chinese medicine have to do with black bears in North America? Skilled grassroots activists, dedicated sanctuary attendants, determined scholars those working to protect the world's eight bear species from Viet Nam to Vermont come together in this book to explore pressures that threaten the world's remaining bears, and to offer a tapestry of possibilities for protecting and preserving these endangered yet much-loved beings. This diverse collection of approachable, engaging essays is an important new addition to literature for those interested in learning more wilderness and wildlife around the world, especially bears |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Bears.
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Wildlife rescue.
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Animal welfare.
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Endangered species.
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Ursidae
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Ursidae (family)
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NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
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Animal welfare
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Bears
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Endangered species
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Wildlife rescue
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kemmerer, Lisa, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789004293090 |
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9004293094 |
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