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LIMA, Peru (AP) \u2014 A spectacled bear was born in a rescue center built by a Peruvian farming community that has protected these animals for more than two decades.<\/p>\n
The bear cub, which does not yet have a name, was discovered after park rangers in the community of Santa Catalina de Chongoyape, in northern Peru, noticed that a female bear named Lola did not leave her den.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey heard different noises and only these days the little bear has begun to come out with its mother,\u201d said Edivar Carrasco, the president of the community.<\/p>\n
Born in mid July, the little bear is the second birth after a female was born six years ago in a fenced area of \u200b\u200bseveral hectares where food and care are provided to ailing bears.<\/p>\n
The farming community manages an ecological reserve where spectacled bears (Tremarctos ornatus) and other animals such as the white-winged guan (Penelope albipennis) are not hunted and can find a safe habitat for their lives in its carob trees and other types of flora.<\/p>\n
The spectacled bear is a vulnerable species, according to the Red List of Threatened Species<\/a> released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.<\/p>\n It is known worldwide thanks to Paddington Bear<\/a>, a children\u2019s storybook character created in 1958 by British writer Michael Bond.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n