What’s going on? Suddenly”official” figures for global polar bear populations are being shown to be quite substantial and increasing. What happened to all the fanatics of the “endangered species lobby”? Where is the WWF? I don’t think polar bears are in any danger of extinction and their endangerment is greatly exaggerated, but are they actually thriving? Are polar bear culls now on the cards?
Perhaps the “real” scientists are beginning to see that continuing with the alarmism touted by eco-fascists is not sustainable and is counter-productive?
PolarBearScience has the story:
According to a dynamic summary report on the home page of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group website called State of the Polar Bear, there are now 22,600-32,000 polar bears worldwide, when tallied by nation.
Here are the numbers, by nation, listed in the State of the Polar Bearsummary report (see map below):
Canada 13,300-17,500
USA 1,200-1,800
Russia 2,700-4,800
Norway 1,900-3,600
Greenland
(Denmark) 3,5000-4,400
Total 22,600-32,000
![The “Nations” page of the Polar Bear Specialist Group’s “State of the Polar Bear,” a dynamic summary that can be launched from the home page of the IUCN PBSG http://pbsg.npolar.no/en/dynamic/app/ [published Oct. 15, 2012] Click to enlarge.](http://polarbearscience.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/pbsg-state-of-the-polar-bear_nations.jpg?w=500&h=323)
The “Nations” page of the Polar Bear Specialist Group’s “State of the Polar Bear,” a dynamic summary that can be launched from the home page of the IUCN PBSG http://pbsg.npolar.no/en/dynamic/app/
This is a big change from the 20,000-25,000 that has been touted as the global polar bear population since 2005.
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If there could be as many as 32,000 polar bears worldwide, why have we not heard of this before? Is this another example of data being kept secret?[see previous discussion here and here]. Or is something else going on?
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