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Cultural Significance | Polar Bears in Canada

The polar bear is an important species to the Inuit- culturally, spiritually, and, more recently, economically. Inuit knowledge, based on the experience and ...

Impacts of Sea Ice Loss on Polar Bear Diet, Prey Availability ...

As climate warming worsens the conditions for the southern polar bear subpopulations, it is anticipated that the High Arctic (northern) subpopulations will ...

Population, Distribution, and Trends - Polar Bear Range States

The distribution of polar bears is influenced by the type and distribution of sea ice, as well as the distribution and abundance of prey. Typically, bears spend ...

Greenland polar bears have learned to hunt without sea ice

A group of newly-discovered polar bears may reveal how the Arctic mammals could survive climate change. Using glacial ice to hunt, ...

Subpopulation of Greenland Polar Bears Found by NASA-Funded ...

Greenland's fjords harbor a unique group of polar bears that rely on glacial ice, a NASA-funded study reports in Science.

Status Report on the World's Polar Bear Subpopulations IUCN/SSC ...

Adjustments to the reported global estimate will continue as new ... In. 2023, the Greenland Government identified the SE polar bear subpopulation as a separate.

Unique Subpopulation of Greenland Polar Bears Discovered by ...

This population of polar bears has been isolated for several hundred years from their Arctic counterparts, and they have been found to be ...

Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Fact Sheet: Population & Conservation ...

Subpopulation estimates · Hudson Bay, Western and Eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Western and Eastern Polar Basin, Norwegian Bay · Similar to ...

Conservation status of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in relation to ...

We estimated GL as the mean age of adult female polar bears with new cubs based on live-capture data from 11 subpopulations. Females with 1 year-old cubs in ...

Polar Bear - Marine Mammal Commission

The polar bear, a marine mammal because of its dependence on sea ice, is listed as threatened under the ESA due to climate change induced threats.

Newly documented polar bear population lives in a surprising place

Scientists who studied and tracked the bears determined that they survive despite having limited access to sea ice -- something that is critical ...

The State of the Polar Bear Report 2023

the addition of a newly-discovered subpopulation, which should rea- sonably boost their very conservative mid-point estimate to about. 26,600 ...

Spread Science about Climate Change, Global Warming - Reality Drop

Polar bears are found in 19 subpopulations around the Arctic. Of the 19 recognized polar bear subpopulations, scientists only have enough data to make ...

The long-term survival of polar bears is threatened by loss of sea-ice ...

Correct: Sea-ice loss due to global warming is threatening polar bear survival and reproduction according to numerous studies and recently ...

Polar bear facts: diet, habitat, conservation, and more | IFAW

Polar bears sit at the top of the food chain in their ecosystems and help maintain the health of their environments. They also serve as an indicator species, ...

ESTIMATING THE ABUNDANCE OF THE GULF OF BOOTHIA ...

Our study area corresponds to the Gulf of Boothia polar bear population identified in Taylor et al. ... deliberately coarse grain so that observations made during ...

Demographic response of a high-Arctic polar bear (Ursus maritimus ...

We constructed all possible combinations of parameter-specific sub - ... duced estimates of the superpopulation, defined as all animals with ...

Scientists Have Discovered a Unique Sub-Species of Polar Bear ...

Scientists have discovered that glaciers in Southeast Greenland are harboring a previously unknown subpopulation of polar bears.

Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus): COSEWIC assessment and status ...

Worldwide, Polar Bear are delineated into 19 'subpopulations' (referred to as 'management units' in this report), of which 14 units occur wholly ...

Sea ice reduction drives genetic differentiation among Barents Sea ...

In the polar basin, global ecoregions are defined by the presence or absence of sea ice, and gene flow between polar bear subpopulations is ...