With range and heat maps, discover which countries harbour the greatest numbers of bears, including total populations, subspecies and species. Included in this video are all 8 bear species and where they are found from the black bears of North America to the sun bears of Southeast Asia and the Andean bears of South America.

Chapters
0:00 American Black Bear
2:42 Polar Bears in North America
3:41 Brown Bears in North America
4:52 Awards Ceremony
5:24 Russia
7:03 China
8:51 Japan
10:14 India
12:15 Europe
13:48 South America
14:44 Southeast Asia

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Creative Commons Attribution
American Black Bear Distribution Map WikiCommons / Bobisbob
Asiatic Black Bear Distribution Map WikiCommons / Chermundy + IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, species assessors and the authors of the spatial data
Polar Bear & Brown Bear Distribution Map WikiCommons / CPiGuy
Sloth Bear Distribution Map WikiCommons / Chermundy + IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, species assessors and the authors of the spatial data
Spectacled Bear Distribution Map WikiCommons / Chermundy + IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, species assessors and the authors of the spatial data
Sun Bear Distribution Map WikiCommons / Chermundy + IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, species assessors and the authors of the spatial data

Editorial & Other Attribution
Kumamon black bear mascot Niradj / shutterstock.com
Polar Bear Subpopulations Map NOAA
Satellite Imagery NASA

Media & Attribution
Unless stated above, all still images are used under license from Shutterstock.com. Thank you to everyone who makes their work available for use. Covering all of the wonderful species in these videos would not be possible without your incredible work.

Sources & Further Reading
Listed below are the sources used to create the video.

Black Bears in Mexico
https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/tree...
North American Black Bear
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/4...
Number of Black Bears in BC
https://wildsafebc.com/species/black...
https://www.env.gov.bc.ca/wld/documen...
Black Bears in Alaska
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm...
Kermode Bear
http://www.bearconservation.org.uk/ke...
https://spiritbear.com/wildlife/spiri...
California Black Bears
https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/...
Cinnamon Bear
http://www.bearconservation.org.uk/am...
Polar Bears
https://www.arcticwwf.org/newsroom/fe...
https://www.climate.gov/newsfeatures...
https://polarbearsinternational.org/c...
Polar Bears in Canada
https://www.canada.ca/en/services/env...
Polar Bears in Alaska
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/bears/po...
Brown Bears in Alaska & B.C.
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm...
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/env...
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm...
Brown Bears in Russia
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamchat...
Asiatic Black Bear numbers in China & Japan
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/2...
Brown Bears in China
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/4...
Giant Panda
https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/anima...
Tibetan Blue Bear
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Full Source List
(there were too many for the character limit so I've included a link to a Google Doc with the full source list for this video)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18...

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