Most endangered bears
Bhutan.
• Habitat loss and poaching (salaküttimine) —mainly
for the commercial trade in body parts—are the
bear's main threats.
• And in India sloth bears are captured live and
made to perform on the roadside.
• The species may have disappeared entirely from
5. ANDEAN BEAR
• Also called spectacled (prill) bears.
• Andean bears roam (rändama) a variety of
types of habitats from Argentina to Panama.
• Poaching, agricultural development, and
increasing mining (kaevanamine) and oil
exploration have threatened the long-term
survival of South America's last remaining bear
species.
6. POLAR BEAR
• Listed as vulnerable (nõrk), the world's largest
land carnivore is one of six bear species
threatened with extinction.
• The polar bear poulation is imperiled
(ohustama) by climate change-induced
melting of Arctic sea ice, which the bears
depend on for hunting marine mammals.
• Pollution, tourism, and oil development are
7. BROWN BEAR
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