Nature & Environment
Polar bear count confounds doomsayers
By
T.K. RandallApril 9, 2012 ·
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Image Credit: Alan D. Wilson
A new survey suggests that polar bear populations, far from shrinking, are actually getting larger.
"The bear population is not in crisis as people believed," said wildlife management director Drikus Gissing. "There is no doom and gloom." An accurate polar bear count is essential as on top of helping to predict the consequences of climate change it is used as a basis on which to determine hunting quotas for local inuit populations.
The debate about climate change and its impact on polar bears has intensified with the release of a survey that shows the bear population in a key part of northern Canada is far larger than many scientists thought, and might be growing.
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The Globe and Mail |
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