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 | |
| Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands | The nominated property also harbors healthy populations of large mammal species that are not listed as globally threatened, but which are important in the regional context, including European Brown Bear, Grey Wolf and European Lynx. (AB Ev) | |
| 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 | |
| Hawraman/Uramanat | "Among animals found in the region are: (...) bears" (Nomination file, p. 35) Brown bears in the Kosalan and Shahu Protected Areas (Nomination file, p. 223) | |
| 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 | |
| Hyrcanian Forests | brown bear (AB ev) | |
| Ilulissat Icefjord | polar bears Ursus maritimus are very rare visitors (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Jiuzhaigou Valley | Black bear, Giant panda | |
| Kaeng Krachan Forest | Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus) and sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) (Nomination file, p. 24) | |
| 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 (IUCN) | |
| 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 | |
| Pyrénées - Mont Perdu | ||
| 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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