20th International Conference on Bear Research and Management

The 20th International Conference on Bear Research and Management will be held 17-23 July 2011 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Registration is now available. The conference is coordinated by the International Association for Bear Research and Management.

Session themes for the conference will include:

• Bears and climate change;
• Ecology and behavior of polar bears;
• Aboriginal and traditional knowledge of bears; and
• Human-bear conflict/human dimensions.

Planned workshops include:
- Climate change effects on bear species;
- Spatially-explicit capture-recapture population estimation;
- Facilitating collaborative partnerships to improve bear research, conservation, and husbandry of captive and free-ranging bears; and
- Large enclosures for captive bears.

Details on the conference program, accommodations, and registration are available at:
http://www.wildliferesearch.ca/iba2011/.