Andean Bear - Vulnerable - Prtctanimal

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PRTCT | ANDEAN BEAR

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The Andean Bear is listed as ‘Vulnerable’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The only bear species in South America, it occurs in the Andes Mountains, from western Venezuela to southern Bolivia, occupying habitats from desert-scrub to forests to high altitude grasslands. Most individuals have white, spectacle-like markings around the eyes, giving rise to the alternative name ‘Spectacled Bear’. The main threat to the Andean Bear is from habitat loss, due to expansion of agriculture, grazing, mining, oil exploration, and road development. With diminishing and more fragmented habitat, Andean bears increasingly raid crops and kill livestock, resulting in more retaliatory killing and illegal hunting. (source:http://support.iucnredlist.org/species/andean-bear)

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