Total number of hunting and exterminating of bears in the past 23 years

ALIVE News 2009-06-20

ALIVE makes it from statistics of the Ministry of the Environment.

Reference
http://www.sizenken.biodic.go.jp/wildbird/flash/toukei/h18/06h18tou.html http://www.env.go.jp/nature/yasei/kuma_number/capture-qe.pdf

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Black bear is scarce internationally wild animals from which it is assumed that there is fear of extermination and is prohibited transacting by Washington Convention.

However, the protective policy is hardly taken, and is caught and kill about 2000 by hunting and harmful exterminating in Japan every year.

The number of Japanese black bears of presumption living is assumed to be about 8000-12000 in the entire Mainland. Japanese black bear has already been exterminated in Kyushu, and it is only a lot in Shikoku alive. It starts exterminating the local population in West Japan.

Reference

Bears Map in Japan (Japanese site )

Demand of ALIVE to request Japanese black bear's protection management measure from the Ministry of the Environment (Japnese site )

Activity report by ALIVE concerning "the bear protection project"