Polar Bear Publications and Facts

Polar Bear Fact Sheet – Learn more about polar bears and their behavior from our fact sheet.

Navigating the Arctic Meltdown: Polar Bears – Part one of a 10 part series by Defenders of Wildlife on global warming and its effect on arctic wildlife.

Canada's Polar Bear: Falling through the cracks?
Report from the David Suzuki Foundation providing a critique of federal and provincial policy to protect polar bears in Canada, home of more than 1/2 the world's population of polar bears.

High definition video footage of polar bears.

Websites

2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, - provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on taxa that have been globally evaluated using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.

Legislative Documents

Testimony of Jamie Rappaport Clark before US House of Representatives committe at a hearing, entitled, On Thin Ice: The Future of the Polar Bear. January 17, 2008

United States-Russia Polar Bear Conservation and Management Act of 2005, S. 2013, 109th Congress.

Scientific and Reference Publications

Aars, Jon, Nicholas J. Lunn and Andrew E. Derocher (eds). Polar Bears: Proceedings of the 14th Working Meeting of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group, 20-24 June 2005, Seattle, Washington, USA. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK, 2006. Internet; accessed 18 December 2006.

Amstrup, Steven. “The Polar Bear-Ursus maritimus: Biology, Management and Conservation.”
Internet; accessed 30 November 2006.

Amstrup, Steven, Gerald W. Garner and George M. Durner. “Polar Bears in Alaska.” Internet; accessed 30 November 2006.

Hansen, Lara. “Conservation in the Face of Climate Change,” [Abstract] in Carnivores Conference 2006: Habitats, Challenges and Opportunities. November 12-15, 2006, St. Petersburg, FL, p. 2.

Holland, Marika M, Cecilia M. Bitz and Bruno Tremblay. “Future Abrupt Reductions in Summer Arctic Sea Ice.” Geophysical Research Letters 33 (2006): L23503.

IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group Website. Internet; accessed 30 November 2006.

Lunn, Nick. J. “Long-term Trends in Polar Bear Biology in Relation to Climate Change,” [Abstract] in Carnivores 2006: Habitats, Challenges and Opportunities, November 12-15, 2006, St. Petersburg, FL, p. 5.

Regehr, Eric V., Steven C. Amstrup and Ian Stirling. Polar Bear Population Status in the Southern Beaufort Sea. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1337, 20 pp.

Stirling, Ian. “Polar Bears and Oil: Ecologic Perspectives,” in Sea Mammals and Oil: Confronting the Risks. San Diego: Academic Press, Inc., 1990. Pp. 223-234.

Stirling, Ian and Claire L. Parkinson. “Possible Effects of Climate Warming on Selected Populations of Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) in the Canadian Arctic.” Arctic 59 no.3 (2006). Pp. 261-275.