A black bear caused quite a stir during Friday’s round of the U.S. Senior Open at the Broadmoor Hotel.
The bear wandered out of the foothills and crossed several fairways, including the 13th fairway near golfer Bernard Langer, before wandering back into the wild without causing any trouble.
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The wanderings of a black bear for six days with a plastic food jar covering its head came to a deadly end in northern Minnesota, when authorities killed the hungry and thirsty animal in a town bustling with visitors.
The bear, a male about 2 years old, was shot by police in Frazee on Saturday night [...]
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Before visiting Yellowstone National Park or “bear country” familiarize yourself with safety precautions in order to avoid bear encounters. “Run for your life” may seem like common sense if a grizzly approaches you, but such action is highly unlikely to foil an attack. The recommended steps are not easy to follow, but they offer the [...]
Consider the effect of climate change on animals and it’s the polar bear that invariably comes to mind, majestically astride a thinning ice floe, watching its habitat disappear.
The species is a powerful conservation symbol. But how much is it, and the public’s dawning enviro-consciousness, being cynically exploited because of it?
The story of two German polar [...]
Three bears at a Ukrainian zoo tore a man “limb from limb” after he fell into their enclosure, local media reports.
The 22-year-old man was drunk and trying to take close-up shots of the Siberian Brown bears at Mykolaev city zoo when he lost his footing, witnesses said, acording to Channel 5 television.
The three bears charged [...]
He was the polar bear cub lauded the world over, who provoked fierce debate on animal rights, appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine at the height of his fame, and has latterly been diagnosed as being addicted to human laughter and applause.
However, the latest twist in the Knut saga is, not surprisingly, centred [...]
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Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Bush administration’s decision to let oil companies unintentionally harass or harm polar bears and walruses off the northwestern Alaska coast.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage claims that federal officials violated laws designed to protect the animals and their sensitive habitat in [...]
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The United States must protect endangered wildlife from global warming and other threats within its own borders and not rely on other countries, such as Canada, to do the job, according to a coalition of 10 conservation organizations that announced today its intention to file a legal challenge against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The [...]
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A wildlife officer put his own life on the line in Florida when he leapt into the sea to save a huge black bear from drowning.
The startled 26 stone beast ran into the water at Alligator Point after being shot with a tranquilliser dart, reports Sky News.
Adam Warwick, realising the bear was in [...]
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A tribal man in India who rescued an abandoned bear cub to help his daughter overcome her mother’s death has fallen foul of forestry officials.
They confiscated the animal arguing that its capture was in contravention of wildlife laws.
As a result, Ramesh Munda, 35, was briefly jailed and the bear was sent to a zoo [...]
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