Bears
WHS where bears can be found in the wild.
Connected Sites
Site | Rationale | Link |
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks | black bear, grizzly bear | |
Carlsbad Caverns | Black bear | |
Central Sikhote-Alin | Himalayan bear | |
Chitwan National Park | Sloth bears | |
Darien National Park | spectacled bear | |
Dolomites | Brown bears (reintroduced) | |
Dong Phayayen | Asiatic Black Bear, Malayan Sun Bear | |
Durmitor National Park | Brown bear | |
Everglades | Black bear | |
Fanjingshan | Asiatic Black Bear | |
Glacier parks | Grizzly bear, black bear and the only habitat in the world for the bluish glacier bear Ursus americanus emmonsi, a colour phase of the black bear found nowhere else in Canada | |
Golden Mountains of Altai | ||
Great Himalayan National Park | Himalayan Brown Bear, Asiatic Black Bear | |
Great Smoky Mountains | Black bear | |
Gros Morne National Park | American Black Bear, Polar Bear | |
High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago | brown bear (UNEP-WCMC) | |
Huanglong | Black bear, Giant panda, Brown bear | |
Huascaran National Park | Spectacled bear | |
Hubei Shennongjia | Asian Black Bear | |
Ilulissat Icefjord | polar bears Ursus maritimus are very rare visitors (UNEP-WCMC) | |
Jiuzhaigou Valley | Black bear, Giant panda | |
Kaziranga National Park | Asiatic Black Bear, Sloth Bear | |
Khangchendzonga National Park | Asian black bear | |
Lake Baikal | Brown bear | |
Laponian Area | Brown bear | |
Machu Picchu | spectacled bear | |
Manas Wildlife Sanctuary | Sloth bear Melursus ursinus (VU), black bear Selenarctos thibetanus (VU) (= Vulnerable IUCN) | |
Manu National Park | spectacled bear | |
Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha | red panda, Asiatic black bear | |
Mount Sanqingshan | Asian black bear | |
Nahanni National Park | Grizzly bears | |
Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers | Himalayan black bear | |
Ohrid Region | Brown bear at Galičica National park | |
Olympic National Park | Black bear | |
Phong Nha - Ke Bang | Himalayan black bear, Malayan sun bear | |
Pimachiowin Aki | Black bear | |
Pirin National Park | Brown bear | |
Plitvice Lakes | Brown bear | |
Primeval Beech Forests | brown bear (in Slovakia/Ukraine) (UNEP-WCMC) | |
Putorana Plateau | brown bear | |
Qinghai Hoh Xil | Brown bear | |
Redwood | Ursus americanus / American black bear | |
Rio Abiseo National Park | spectacled bear | |
Sagarmatha National Park | Himalayan black bear (UNEP-WCMC) | |
Sangay National Park | Spectacled Bear | |
Shirakami-Sanchi | Asiatic Black Bear | |
Shiretoko | Brown bear | |
Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries | Black bear, Giant panda | |
Tajik National Park | brown bear | |
Three parallel rivers of Yunnan | Brown bear | |
Uvs Nuur Basin | Brown bear | |
Virgin Komi Forests | brown bear | |
Volcanoes of Kamchatka | Brown bear | |
Waterton Glacier International Peace Park | Grizzly ("A denser population than either Yellowstone or Canadian Rockies") | |
West Norwegian Fjords | Brown bear | |
Western Caucasus | Brown bear | |
Western Ghats | Sloth bear at Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary | |
Wood Buffalo National Park | Black bear, Brown bear | |
Wrangel Island | Polar bears | |
Wulingyuan | Asiatic black bear | |
Xinjiang Tianshan | brown bear, grizzly bear | |
Yellowstone | Black bear and the grizzly or brown bear | |
Yosemite National Park | American Black Bear |
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