{"id":13928,"date":"2022-06-01T09:34:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T07:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/?p=120848"},"modified":"2022-06-01T10:55:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T08:55:12","slug":"remembering-bears-incredible-photography-from-the-upcoming-book","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/rss_feed\/remembering-bears-incredible-photography-from-the-upcoming-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Bears: Incredible photography from the upcoming book"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Holly Spanner\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 01 June 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Bears are extremely intelligent creatures. Not only can they count as well as primates can<\/a>, but they have also learned how to use tools and are highly sensitive to emotion. As well as happiness, bears can experience grief and have demonstrated trauma responses. Their eyesight is much sharper than ours (and they have night vision), their ears are twice as sensitive as ours and they can smell a meal up to 20 miles away<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But they\u2019re also threatened by habitat loss, human-animal conflict, hunting, the illegal pet trade, road kills and exploitation, such as dancing bears and bear bile farms.<\/p>\n

The Remembering Wildlife<\/em><\/a> series was started by photographer Margot Raggett<\/a> after seeing a poached elephant in 2014 in Kenya. She then spent six months persuading the world\u2019s best wildlife photographers to donate an image for a book, Remembering Elephants<\/em>, to raise money to fight poaching.<\/p>\n

Since then, five more books have been published, and Remembering Bears<\/em> is the seventh in the series, with 100 per cent of profits from book sales going to conservation. The series has already donated \u00a3917,000 to 55 projects across 24 countries since it began in 2016.<\/p>\n

Among the stunning photography, Remembering Bears<\/em> will also feature 10 winning images from a worldwide competition, and we\u2019ve brought together the winning images here.<\/p>\n

Balance<\/h2>\n
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A brown bear walks across a fallen tree in the Arctic Circle, Canada \u00a9 Marion Vollborn\/ Remembering Bears<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Sloth Bear Fight Sequence: The Battle<\/h2>\n
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Sloth bears fighting in Ranthambhore National Park, Rajasthan, India \u00a9 Anjali Singh\/ Remembering Bears<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Lay me down to sleep<\/h2>\n
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A polar bear takes a nap in Kaktovik, Alaska \u00a9 Julie Oldroyd\/ Remembering Bears<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Mother knows best<\/h2>\n
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Brown bears in British Columbia, Canada \u00a9 Marion Vollborn\/ Remembering Bears<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

See more incredible nature photography:<\/strong><\/p>\n