• Recently, a study Zoological Survey of India on the Himalayan brown bear has predicted a significant reduction in suitable habitat and biological corridors of the Himalayan brown bear due to climate change.

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• North-western and central Himalaya, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China and Bhutan.
• High altitude open valleys and pastures. During the summer months the bears move up as high as the snow-line at around 5,500 metres and then descend into the              valleys in the autumn.
• Himalayan brown bears seem to be arguably the least arboreal of all the bear subspecies.
• Himalayan brown bears are diurnal and, except during mating and for mothers with cubs, are solitary.
• Mating takes place during May and June with cubs being born in the winter den in December and January.
• The bears go into hibernation in a cave or dug-out den around October, emerging in April or May
• IUCN Red List: Critically endangered.
• CITES: Appendix I
• Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act of 1972: Schedule 1