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International Bear News International Bear News Tri-Annual Newsletter of the International Association for Bear Research and Management (IBA) and the IUCN/SSC Bear Specialist Group Summer 2017 Vol. 26 no. 2 Black bear with white fur on all four legs and paws captured in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo submitted by mutliple sources. Photo Credit: Mike Pelton, University of Tennessee. Read more on this bear and other white footed black bears on pages 30-31. IBA website: www.bearbiology.org Table of Contents INTERNATIONAL BEAR NEWS 3 International Bear News, ISSN #1064-1564 29 Calling all Brown Bear Biologists/Managers/ IBA PRESIDENT/IUCN BSG CO-CHAIRS Enthusiasts - Help us to Develop a New 4 President’s Column Method to Recognise and Monitor Brown 5 The Worth of a Single Bear Bears Worldwide! IBA GRANTS PROGRAM NEWS MANAGER’S CORNER 8 Interview with Dr. Ximena Velez Liendo, 30 Unusual White-Footed Black Bears Winner of the Whitley Award for 32 Captive Bears Help Remind Floridians to Conservation Keep Trash Secure 10 Research and Conservation Grants Awarded 33 Living with Bears Launches New for 2017 Educational Pocket Guides 12 Stay Tuned for Announcement of Community Conservation Grant ZOO AND CAPTIVE BEAR ORGANIZATIONS Opportunity…. 34 Snared Asiatic Black Bear in China’s Sichuan Province Returned to the Wild CONSERVATION 13 Syrian Brown Bear Accompanies Syrian WORKSHOP REPORTS Children through their Social Studies 36 23rd Eastern Black Bear Workshop 14 Brown Bear Population in the Central Alps (Trentino, Italy) has Stabilized 15 Kaziranga National Park — Plenty of Sloth CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS Bears, but are there Other Bear Species? 37 25th International Conference on Bear Research & Management 38 International Symposium on Sun Bear ILLEGAL TRADE Conservation & Management 17 Recent Reports of Seizures and Poaching of Sun Bears in Malaysia WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENTS HUMAN BEAR CONFLICTS 38 5th International Human-Bear Conflict 19 Is Bear Conservation Working? A Perspective Workshop Related to Human–Bear Conflicts in North America STUDENT FORUM 20 Recent Killing of a Sloth Bear Melursus 39 Communication Tips for Students ursinus in a New Locality in Assam 40 Truman Listserv and Facebook Page BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS 22 Sloth Bears Feed on Cicadas in Jassore Sloth 40 Recent Bear Literature Bear Sanctuary, Gujarat, India 24 A Quick Survey of Brown Bears in IBA OFFICERS & COUNCIL Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, 45 Executive Council Members and Ex-Officio Southwestern Iran Members 25 Studying New York’s Black Bear Population: There’s an App for that BSG EXPERT TEAM CHAIRS 27 Sloth Bear Pede-Marking Caught on Video 46 Bear Specialist Group Team Chairs 2 International Bear News Summer 2017, vol. 26 no. 2 Table of Contents International Bear News, ISSN #1064-1564 Tri-Annual newsletter of the International Association for Bear Research and Management (IBA) Editors: Mark Edwards (Managing Editor) Amy Macleod (Layout & Design) Jim Tomlin (Proofing) Jennapher L Teunissen van Manen (Distribution) 907 Jessie Way Bozeman MT 59715 Email: [email protected] Websites: www.bearbiology.com www.bearbiology.org Back issues are available at www.bearbiology.com Editorial Policy International Bear News welcomes articles about biology, conservation, and management of the world’s eight bear species. Submissions of about 750 words are preferred, and photos, drawings, and charts are appreciated. Submissions to regional correspondents by email are preferred; otherwise, mail or fax to the address above. IBA reserves the right to accept, reject, and edit submissions. Correspondents: Western US and Canada: Carrie Lowe, Email: [email protected] Eastern US and Canada: Jared Laufenberg, Email:[email protected] Central and South America: Marco Enciso, Email:[email protected] Europe and Central Asia: Tatjana Rosen Michel, Email:[email protected] Zoo and Captive Bear Organizations: Jordan Schaul, Email:[email protected] Bear Specialist Group: Dave Garshelis, Email:[email protected] Manager’s Corner: Rich Beausoleil, Email: [email protected] All other submission and/or inquiries: Mark Edwards, Email: [email protected] Consult website for submission guidelines. Deadline for the Fall 2017 issue is 5 October 2017. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this issue. Artwork is copyrighted – Do not reproduce without permission. For Membership Information and Publication Ordering Go to www.bearbiology.com to order or renew memberships, make donations, and/or update member information. The use of the IBA logo at the end of The use of the BSG logo at the end of The use of the IBA-BCF logo at the an article indicates articles submit- an article indicates articles submitted beginning of an article signifies ted via the IBA regional correspon- via the Bear Specialist Group. work that was supported, at least in dents and the IBN editorial staff. part, by the Bear Conservation Fund through an IBA grant. International Bear News Summer 2017, vol. 26 no. 2 3 IBA President President’s Column: Science Goes Electric Andreas Zedrosser Institute for Natural Sciences and Environmental Health University College of Southeast Norway Pb. 235, N-3603 Kongsberg, Norway Email: [email protected] All of us working in the charming but slightly underpaid world of science (or management and conservation) have encountered these words in recent years: “open-access” and “online-only”. Those of us who have been long enough in the business of science still remember the good ole days, when manuscripts or reports were hand written, typed up on a typewriter, and then submitted via snail mail. Statistical analyses were usually restricted to tests that you could calculate by hand or with a pocket calculator. The digital revolution brought us computers, email, and internet, and made analyzing large data sets with the use of sophisticated statistics, as well as writing and editing a manu- script, easy and fast (well, sort of easy and fast). Most people working in ecology and wildlife biology send their manuscripts to journals that are well established in the field, undergo the famous or infamous (depending on your perspective) review process, and then receive a copy or a pdf of the successfully published paper. Colleagues searching for our paper online usually find our paper in an online library, which may or may not give access to the paper, depending on which journals are part of the access package. Less than a quarter of newly published papers are immediately available; the rest remain behind a pay wall, some permanently. Yes, we can make a pdf file publicly available on the internet ourselves, however this is also not as straightforward as we may think. The copyright is usually owned by the journal, and posting the pdf of our paper may be illegal and we could be prosecuted. In what European science chief Carlos Moedas calls a “life-changing” move, European Union member states agreed in 2016 on an ambitious new open-access target: all scientific papers should be freely available by 2020 (see, for example: Enserink, M., DOI: 10.1126/science.aag0577). Open access is the practice of providing on-line access to scientific information that is free of charge to the user and that is reusable. The idea behind open access is at the heart of science. Knowledge should be accessible to everyone, and data and research results should be reusable, testable and repeatable. The EU defines 2 main routes to open access: ‘Green’ open access - the author archives the published article in an online repository after publication. Some publishers request that open access be granted only after an embargo period has elapsed. ‘Gold’ open access is when an article is immediately published in open access mode (for more information see: Guidelines to the Rules on Open Access to Scientific Publications And Open Access to Research Data by the European Commission, Directorate- General for Research & Innovation). All scientists receiving support from EU funds must publish their paper open access before 2020, and universities have already started to implement this into their own publication regulations. For example, I am currently in the somewhat paradoxical situation that my employer asks me to publish in a low-impact, but fully open- access, journal rather than traditional high-impact journals, such as Nature and Science. Open access also means free accessibility of the data underlying publications. This is where open-access may need some adjustments from researchers in our field. Collecting data on large mammals, such as bears, is difficult, time consuming, and inherently expensive. We often need many years to build up data sets substantial enough for publication. In an open-access framework, our data become freely accessible to everybody. However, the costs of data gathering, including resources beyond monetary ones, are borne by the data providers and their institutions, not by those who might want to use the data. Open-access policies and its consequences are currently causing an animated discussion, partially carried out in scientific (open-access) journals. Mills et al. (2016, TREE) propose, among other things, the development of a formal code of conduct, which respects the data generated especially in long-term studies, to allow the submission of tabulated summaries rather than raw data, extended embargoes on the use of archived open-access data, encouraging cooperative research between the data collector and the people wishing to use the data, and the development of an enforceable procedure that enables a researcher to be contacted when someone wishes to access primary data. I encourage you to read the interesting discus- sions on this topic in the papers by Mills et al. 2015, 2016 and Whitlock et al. 2016, all of them in TREE. According to the IBA’s membership survey in 2015, our scientific journal Ursus is one of the most important services that we provide to our membership, as well as to the management and conservation of bears worldwide.
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