Bears

WHS where bears can be found in the wild.

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Bears':

  • Carlsbad Caverns Black bear; link
  • Central Sikhote-Alin Himalayan bear
  • Chitwan National Park Sloth bears
  • Darien National Park spectacled bear
  • Dong Phayayen Asiatic Black Bear, Malayan Sun Bear
  • Durmitor National Park Brown bear
  • Everglades 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Olympic National Park Black bear
  • Phong Nha - Ke Bang Himalayan black bear, Malayan sun bear
  • Pirin National Park Brown bear
  • Plitvice Lakes Brown bear
  • Primeval Beech Forests brown bear (in Slovakia/Ukraine) (UNEP-WCMC)
  • Putorana Plateau 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
  • 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
  • Yellowstone Black bear and the grizzly or brown bear