However, spectacled bears are endangered due to multiple threats, including hunters killing them for their private parts, claws and body fat. One particular breed could even be extinct in the next ...

AT the start of his new movie, marmalade-loving bear Paddington gets into bother reaching for an orange hanging on a tree.

Spectacled bears are an umbrella species as they disperse the seeds of the plants they eat across their wide range of habitats. The extinction of these bears could mean the collapse of their ecosystem ...

New evidence suggests humans hunted the bear and drove it from caves, putting it on the road to extinction. The fate of the species was sealed by other pressures, such as the onset of the last Ice ...

One of the rarest large carnivores on the planet, the spectacled bear is the 'real' Paddington ... are a unique record of one of the most endangered and rarely seen large animals in the world.