Ocho osos : El pasado mítico y el futuro incierto de uno de los animales más fascinantes del planeta

In Eight Bears, award-winning environmental journalist Gloria Dickie travels the globe tracking the eight remaining bear species: from the shy spectacled bear, hiding among the clouds that shroud the threatened high forests of the Andes, to the black bears that roam freely through Colorado neighborhoods, to the grizzlies venturing beyond Yellowstone for the first time in a century, the pandas in Chinese breeding centers, the Asian and Malayan bears cruelly confined to bile farms in Vietnam, the sloth bear that kills hundreds of people each year in India, and Churchill's last polar bears, fighting for survival amidst the disintegration of the Arctic landscape. Thus, each chapter of this captivating book blends travelogue, investigative journalism, environmental activism, and accessible science to tell the true stories of all these animals and the men and women who live alongside them: neighbors learning to share their territory with bears that descend from the mountains in search of food, biologists risking their lives in remote jungles, activists rescuing animals tortured on illegal farms, farmers and loggers brutally mutilated or killed, and Indigenous communities for whom the bear remains a relative, a teacher, and a guardian spirit. Dickie writes with a reporter's keen eye, but also with humor, a gonzo sensibility when the situation calls for it, and always with a fierce empathy for her furry protagonists, as well as for the humans who coexist with them, sometimes in extremely complex situations. The result is a vibrant book full of unforgettable images that forces us to question what kind of relationship we want to have with these animals, whom we have simultaneously turned into cuddly toys, media monsters, and victims of the climate crisis.