Sadly, it's the fact that Asiatic Black Bears have cool things on their chest that feeds superstitions about them. Habitat destruction doesn't help but the number one thing threatening them is the demand for superstitious folk medicine that uses bear parts.
In South Korea, each black bear has a soldier guarding. Kind of a boring assignment but it's an honor to guard a bear.
The rest of Asia, there is much less effort on conservation of black bears. The CCP guards pandas but they don't do it out of altruism. They do it because pandas are useful for international politics.
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