The scientists behind the study hope that it leads to increased conservation efforts — particularly among the local community. Experts stunned after footage captures chilling behavior of elusive bear ...

Planet Money buys a "biodiversity credit" and travels to the Andean cloud forest in Colombia — to see how these credits work, and if they can really help save threatened species.

Augusta Cueva-Agila explains how the Cinchona officinalis, native to the Andean foothills, produced the world’s first anti-malarial drug ...

In the mountains of Peru, where ancient cloud forests meet the Amazon Rainforest, an Andean bear made scientific ... Southern Hemisphere’s only bear species, from treetop mating rituals to ...

The bears live in a mixture of regions including grasslands and cloud forest. “Andean bears have a broad ... United States conducted surveys of two species of bromeliad (Puya leptostachya ...

High-altitude grasslands bordering cloud forest are key habitats for Andean bears and conservation managers should consider how livestock impact this important ecosystem, the authors say.

The spectacled bear is native to Andean countries like Peru, Ecuador, northern Argentina, Bolivia and Venezuela and lives in scrublands, grasslands, and forests. Experts believe there are anywhere ...

Andean bears, or Spectacled bears, are the only bear species in the Southern Hemisphere ... in maintaining the health of the Amazon’s cloud forest” by eating seeds and dispersing them through ...