Six New Publications Advance Andean Bear Conservation and

摘要

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Andean Bear Conservation Program and the national WCS offices in Bolivia and Colombia, in collaboration with the Andean Bear Conservation Alliance (a partnership between WCS, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Saint Louis Zoo and IUCN Bear Specialist Group) and other partner institutions, recently published six contributions focused on the conservation and management of the Andean bear. At the regional level, the publication "Andean Bear Priority Conservation Units in Bolivia and Peru" showcases the result of a workshop on the Conservation of the Andean Bear in Bolivia and Peru, which was held as part of the II International Symposium on Andean Bear in Lima Peru in November 2008. Under the leadership of Rob Wallace, collaborators from Bolivia and Peru (Ariel Reinaga, Teddy Siles, Jan Baiker, Isaac Goldstein, Boris Rios-Uzeda, Russ Van Horn, Renzo Vargas, Ximena Vélez-Liendo, Luis Acosta, Viviana Albarracín， Jessica Amanzo， Paula De La Torre， Enrique Domic， Marco Enciso， Cecilia Flores， Alicia Kuroiwa, Renata Leite-Pitman, Karen Noyce, Susanna Paisley, Bader Pe?a, Heinz Plenge, Roxana Rojas, Vera Pinto, Trinidad Tapia, Hector Vela) systematically collated existing distributional knowledge on the Andean bear using the Range-Wide Priority Setting Exercise developed by WCS for landscape and globally threatened species. Bolivia and Peru represent 70% of the Andean bear range, containing the largest remaining wilderness areas for the species, and the results of the workshop are key for informing the species conservation efforts across the range, particularly by identifying conservation strongholds. Available in English and Spanish the document was published in late 2014. The workshop was possible thanks to the support of the organizers of the II International Symposium on the Andean Bear, WCS, Centro de Diversidad y Genetica de la Universidad Mayor de San Simon de Bolivia, La Universidad Cayetano Heredia de Peru, and Antwerp University.