A brown bear mother and baby make their way across the frozen landscape during the safari in Dras, India. Photo: Surya Ramachandran A brown bear mother and baby make their way across the frozen landscape during the safari in Dras, India. Photo: Surya Ramachandran
A brown bear mother and baby make their way across the frozen landscape during the safari in Dras, India. Photo: Surya Ramachandran

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Himalayan brown bear safaris in India – all you need to know about seeing one of the world’s rarest animals

New tourism venture hopes to increase awareness of the critically endangered species that is already extinct in Bhutan, and to provide employment and income for local people, in the second coldest inhabited place on Earth

Topic |   Asia travel
Mark Abbott

Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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A brown bear mother and baby make their way across the frozen landscape during the safari in Dras, India. Photo: Surya Ramachandran A brown bear mother and baby make their way across the frozen landscape during the safari in Dras, India. Photo: Surya Ramachandran
A brown bear mother and baby make their way across the frozen landscape during the safari in Dras, India. Photo: Surya Ramachandran
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