Species/Polar bear
Polar bear
Ursus maritimus
VUVulnerable
- Range
- Arctic sea ice
- Population
- About 26,000, with some subpopulations crashing
- Trend
- unknown
- Last assessed
- 2015
A climate species, listed as Vulnerable because the ice it hunts from is a season that keeps shrinking.
You cannot ranger a melted ocean. This one is the atmosphere grade leaking into wildlife.
Threats
- Sea-ice loss
- Human-bear conflict
- Pollution
What you can do
Cut personal fossil use like it is habitat
Because for this species, it is.