Bear Necessities

Lisa Kemmerer, PhD., graduate of Reed and Harvard, is a scholar and activist, and author/editor of nine books including Eating Earth, Animals and Environment, Sister Species, Animals and World Religions, and Primate People. You can learn more about her at lisakemmerer.com.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction, Lisa KemmererPART I: Bear Basics 1.Bear Basics, Lisa Kemmerer2.Bear-Aware for Twenty Years, Victor Watkins3.Making a Difference for Bears in Asia, Amy Corrigan4.Polar Bears: Watching Extinction in Real Time, Kassie Siegel and Brendan CummingsPART II: A World of Problems5.Franzi: Beloved Ambassador for Bears on Bile Farms, Jill Robinson6.Little Bears, Big Trees, Tiny Insects: Protecting Sun Bears and their Rainforest, Lisa Kemmerer and Siew Te Wong7.Libearty Sanctuary Zarnesti: Sharing Love and Sheltering Life in Eastern Europe, Cristina Lapis8.9,540,000 Square Miles, 800,000 American Black Bears, 3 Rescues, Charlotte Lorraine Cressey9.Failing Giant Pandas: Captive Breeding and Conservation, Sarah M. Bexell10.Bear Baiting in Pakistan, Fakhar -i- Abbas11.Dirty Dancing: Caring for Sloth Bears in India, Lisa Kemmerer12.Sliding Down Mountainsides on My Butt in Search of the Elusive Andean Bear, Dalma Zsalakó13.Finding Enrico: Protecting Andean Bears and their Habitat, Lisa Kemmerer, Kerry Fugett, and Simona KobelPART III: Policy14.Brown Bears, Salmon, People: Traveling Upstream to a Sustainable Future, Chris Darimont, et al15.Cleaning up a Community for Black Bears, Mick Webb16.U.S. Wildlife Agencies: Outdated, Misguided, and Destructive, Lisa Kemmerer17.The Assignment: Breaking Laws to Build Laws on behalf of Lake Tahoe’s Black Bears, Ann Bryant18.A Grizzly Battle: Government Agencies, Endangered Species, and the U.S. Legal System, Tara Zuardo19.Panda Preservation 2.0: Shifting Gears to Save a Species, Anna Beech and Marc BrodyPART IV: Bears and Beyond20.Canary in the Arctic, Lisa Kemmerer21.Bears, Birds, and Human Hubris: Imagining Bears in the Andes, Tom Regele22.The Damage and Hope of Total Institutions: Visiting a Bear Sanctuary in Cambodia, Lisa Kemmerer and Daniel Kirjner23.Bear Naked: Compassion and Wilderness, Dana MedoroIndex

"Lisa Kemmerer's book reveals not only the tragedy and cruelty being imposed upon bears internationally, but also the successes in combating it...Equally thought provoking, sad, joyful, inspiring, the reader will experience all these emotions as the pages reveal realities rarely known before. This book commands a treasured space on any bear-lover's bookshelf." -Mick W., North Shore Black Bear Network