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The Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears is a multilateral treaty signed in Oslo, November 15, 1973, by the five nations with the largest polar bear populations: Canada, Denmark (), Norway (), the United States, and the Soviet Union. [1]
Biologist Ian Stirling commented, "For many years, the conservation of polar bears was the only subject in the entire Arctic that nations from both sides of the Iron Curtain could agree upon sufficiently to sign an agreement. Such was the intensity of human fascination with this magnificent predator, the only marine bear."
International Agreement on the Preservation of Polar Bears and their Habitat (Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears, Oslo Agreement) Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP, Hobart Agreement)
"They're just dreaming of ice and being back out there," said York, senior director of research and policy with the conservation group Polar Bears International. But this migration ritual is changing.
Tools such as bear spray and ‘bear-dar’ deployed to help communities as climate change brings more contact with world’s largest land carnivores. Conservationists working to tackle rising ...
Polar bears are one of the most majestic, yet fearsome animals on the planet. The largest living species of bear and the largest land carnivore, the polar bear is closely related to the brown bear.
The Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears; Territorial claims. According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), coastal states have ...
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