ULAN BATOR, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Mongolian police have arrested several men involved in poaching endangered brown bear and moose, the Ecological Police Department said Tuesday.

SAPPORO--A record 1,804 “higuma” brown bears were captured or hunted ... 1.9 times that of the previous fiscal year. Figures on bear sightings began to be collected in fiscal 1962.