How many polar bears are left 2018

INTERNATIONAL POLAR BEAR DAY

Inuit paying the price of rising bear populations

The 2018 State of the Polar Bear report, published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, confirms that polar bears are continuing to thrive, despite recent reductions in sea ice levels.

This finding contradicts claims by environmentalists and some scientists that falls in sea ice would wipe out bear populations. 

The report’s author, zoologist Dr Susan Crockford, says that there is now very little evidence to support the idea that the polar bear is threatened with extinction by climate change. 

“We now know that polar bears are very resourceful creatures.

They have made it through warm periods in the past and they seem to be taking the current warming in their stride too”. 

In fact, it is the human residents of the Arctic Circle who seem to have most to worry about.

With more and more bears on the landscape at all times of year, there h