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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]
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)
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.
As temperatures warm, and ice melts, polar bears are dying at an increasing rate. Once thriving, polar bears have become a vulnerable species with just an estimated 22,000 to 31,000 individuals ...
"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.
An isolated group of polar bears living in southeast Greenland has surprised scientists with its ability to survive in a habitat with relatively little sea ice.
Polar Bear Conservation Award of the Polar Bear Range States of the 1973 Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears (2020) [14] Polar Bears International Ice Bear Lifetime Achievement Award (2019) [12] Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research (2015) [15] Kenneth S. Norris Lifetime Achievement Award (2013) [16] [4]
As climate change diminishes sea ice from coastal communities in the Arctic and the subarctic, researchers expect polar bears to range farther into the towns