Are bears safe anywhere on earth? Not as long as there is a bounty on their heads... or in some cases, on their internal organs. Alaskan bears, including this brown bear photographed by AWI's president, Cathy Liss, are killed for sport by trophy hunters, and are indiscriminately slaughtered for their gallbladders, which are used in traditional medicine in Asian communities in the United States and abroad. Poaching for bear parts remains a nationwide problem exemplified by a recent undercover investigation and series of arrests for bear poaching and illegal commercialization of bear parts in Alaska. Almost simultaneously, a similar wildlife law enforcement operation was announced in the Shenandoah Mountains of Virginia some 4,000 miles away. For some populations, there is just as much risk from the sport hunter. Grizzly bears in British Columbia (BC), for instance, increasingly have become imperiled by hunters' bullets and habitat destruction. Thankfully, the European Union has stopped allowing grizzly imports from BC in an effort to stabilize and strengthen the province's population.