Mammalia · Carnivora
Spectacled Bear (Andean Bear)
Tremarctos ornatus
The only surviving native bear species adapted to high-altitude cloud forests and páramo shrublands, having evolved for millions of years in isolation from every other living bear lineage.
- Realm
- Terrestrial
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and versionA sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1446 licence-filtered records across 23 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (23)
- Actualización del plan de manejo y Ampliación del PNR Páramo del Duende (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Asociación de Becarios de Casanare (ABC) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Biodiversidad registrada en el área de influencia del programa Río Saldaña una Cuenca de Vida en el departamento del Tolima (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Convenio de asociación No. 092 de 2020 CVC-WCS. Monitoreo de especies focales de fauna y flora en áreas de priorizadas en el Valle del Cauca. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Mamíferos detectados mediante fototrampeo en las inmediaciones de la Reserva Natural de la Sociedad Civil ‘Refugio del Oso’ (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Paisaje Jaguar Test (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- PMA HoyaHernando (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Proyecto Paisajes - Vida Silvestre - Cámaras trampa (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Registros de mamíferos y aves asociados al monitoreo pasivo del oso andino con cámaras trampa en el complejo de páramos Las Hermosas, Resguardo Indígena Las Mercedes (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Rio Saldaña una Cuenca de Vida, Monitoreo con cámaras trampa (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Sesquilé Bio (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Viviendo en los Andes: registros notables de la distribución altitudinal del oso andino, Tremarctos ornatus (Ursidae) en Boyacá, Colombia (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)