Russian Brown Bears

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Quote: Russian zoologists reckon there are about 80,000 Brown Bears between the Baltic and Pacific coasts. About a quarter of them are found west of the Ural Mountains. However, bears feel most at ease in Siberia and the far east of Russia, where people are relatively scarce. An estimated 15,000 live in the Kransnoyarsk region, 8,000 in the Amur-Ussuri area, and about 9,000 on the Kamchatkan Peninsula.

The minimum size of forest suitable for Brown Bears is about 100 sq km ( 40 sq miles ), free from logging or other forms of human disturbance. In such an ideal situation, bears can survive at a density of three to every 10 sq km ( three to every 4 sq miles ). However, even in Russia, completely undisturbed virgin forest is a rarity, so bears are usually much less densely distributed. Reply