Bears capture our imagination like almost no other animal. But behind that fascination is a bigger story about climate change, coexistence, and how we care for wildlife.

Today on Good Nature, host Megan Leslie sits down with Gloria Dickie, environmental journalist and author of Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future. Gloria shares stories from her travels reporting on all eight of the world’s bear species, from polar bears in Churchill, MB to spectacled bears in the Andes to sloth bears in India. Along the way, Gloria and Megan discuss the role of bears as ecological and cultural keystone species, why bears around the world have stopped hibernating, and what real “bear smart” communities look like.

Plus, Jessica Currie from WWF-Canada’s Science, Knowledge and Innovation team drops in to tell Megan something good about the world’s largest (and most surprising!) wildlife migration.

Check out Gloria’s work: https://www.gloriadickie.com/

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