HIMALAYAN BROWN BEAR

Subject : Environment

Context : Study predicts massive habitat decline for the Himalayan brown bear by 2050 due to climate change.

Concept :

• The Himalayan brown bear is one of the largest carnivores in the highlands of Himalayas.
• It occupies the higher reaches of the Himalayas in remote, mountainous areas of Pakistan and India, in small and isolated populations, and is extremely rare in many of its ranges.
• IUCN Status: Critically endangered
• Distribution: In India, they are found in 23 protected areas of the northern states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttaranchal.

IUCN ( International Union for Conservation of Nature )

• IUCN is a membership union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations.
• Created in 1948, it is the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.
• It is headquartered in Switzerland.
• The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, is the world’s most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species.