My continual concern with animals in danger and in this case, The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species led me to illustrate some of them in order to visually underline and emphasize the problem.
This one is an acrylic painting of the beautiful Andean bear, endemic to the Tropical Andes, and the only extant species of bear in South America. They occupy a great variety of habitats, from desert-scrub to forests to high altitude grasslands, ranging in elevation from 250 to 4,750 m
