A study by the Indian wildlife conservation charity Wildlife SOS found that 75 percent of the bears' diet consisted of human food waste.
in India's Jammu and Kashmir region consists of human garbage, including plastic bags, chocolate wrappers and even curry., an Indian wildlife conservation charity, and the Jammu & Kashmir Wildlife Protection Department. A study gathering this data was carried out over several months in 2021." by the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list, are a subspecies of brown bears found across central Asia, ranging between northern Afghanistan to China.
Photos of the bears feeding at the garbage dumps. A study has found that 75 percent of the bears' diet is garbage food items, with a large number of bears having been found to have eaten plastic and other non-edible items.These bears are usually omnivorous, eating grasses, fruit, berries, roots and other plants as well as animals like sheep and goats.
These findings were also backed up by a variety of camera trap data that showed the brown bears feeding from garbage dumps, Swaminathan Shanmugavelu, a Wildlife SOS senior biologist, said in a statement. The traps also showed a number of other animal species scavenging for food at the garbage dumps, including red foxes and jackals, as well as dogs, ponies and cattle.
Himalayan brown bears are critically endangered—the report stays there may only be 130 to 220 mature adults left in the wild. Their small population is largely due to poaching, with hunters harvesting their fur and claws for ornaments, and internal organs for use in medicines. They are alsoEating food waste from human garbage can be incredibly dangerous to the bears, mostly due to them also ending up eating non-edible or even toxic items.
Items like plastic and food wrapping can injure the gastric intestinal tract of the bears, resulting in health problems that can shorten their lives, Swaminathan said. Plastic bags in particular can clog up the digestive system and prevent real food from being digested.
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