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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]
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 ...
A-Z Animals got a chance to sit down with Amy Cutting, Polar Bears International’s Vice President of Conservation, to learn about the organization, the work it does, the impact it’s made, and ...
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The key danger for polar bears posed by the effects of climate change is malnutrition or starvation due to habitat loss.Polar bears hunt seals from a platform of sea ice. Rising temperatures cause the sea ice to melt earlier in the year, driving the bears to shore before they have built sufficient fat reserves to survive the period of scarce food in the late summer and early fall.
Here lies an unusually diverse assemblage of large animals and smaller, less-appreciated life forms, tied to their physical environments and to each other by natural, undisturbed ecological and evolutionary processes." [74] Prior to 2008, 39% of the residents of the United States [66] and a majority of Canadians opposed drilling in the refuge. [75]
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[3] [1] In Nuuk, Greenland on May 12, 2011, ministers signed a Search & Rescue agreement, the Arctic Council's first law-bound treaty. At the Arctic Council ministerial meeting on April 24, 2015, a Task Force on Arctic Marine Cooperation was created to consider future needs for cooperation on Arctic marine issues.