• Conserving bears worldwide through education, research, management, and habitat conservation

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  • Education: helping students develop conservation awareness through scientific inquiry

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  • Bear Trust identifies and addresses needs in bear conservation worldwide

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  • Bear Trust education programs are web-based, project-based, and free

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  • Spectacled Bear

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  • Giant Panda Bear

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  • Asiatic Black Bear

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  • Sun Bear Cub

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New Project Linking Science with Education!

Bear Trust is linking bear science with education:    Addressing goals outlined by STEM, we take real data from real field studies on bears and distill the research into exciting and engaging lessons for students to help teach skills in science, math, critical thinking, problem-solving, communications and conservation……Learn More…

Bear Basics For Students

Learn about the eight species of bears worldwide and whether bears hibernate or not.  Cool fact……although all eight species are in the order Carnivora and family Ursidae, only the four species of bears of the North all share the same genus Ursus.  Each of the four species of bears of the South have different genera.. Learn More…

“Teach the Teachers” Workshop in AK!

Bear Trust and our collaborators in Alaska launched our first “teach the teachers” workshop near Anchorage, Alaska  Learn More…

Project Initiatives

Bear Trust focuses on 4 primary project initiatives: 1) Conservation Education 2) Bear Research 3) Bear Management 4) Habitat Conservation

Contact Info

PO Box 4006
Missoula, MT 59806
Phone: (406) 523-7779
melissa@beartrust.org