Walking Hibernation Not a Factor for Polar Bears
Polar bears have no special trick to help them withstand long fasts, as scientists once speculated. Instead, a new study shows that they lose body condition just like any other food-deprived animals....
View ArticleNew Agreement to Tackle People and Polar Bear Conflicts in Canadas North
Workshop participants gathered at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre in Churchill, Manitoba. read more
View ArticlePolar Bear Point of View Video
New collar cams aid in polar bear research, providing insights into behavior and energy expenditures on land. read more
View ArticleHollomon Price Foundation Funds Polar Bear Conservation
PBI is grateful for funding from the Holloman Price Foundation, which will help support our conservation efforts. read more
View ArticleWildlife Conservation Network Shows Commitment to Polar Bears
The Wildlife Conservation Network supports our field work and outreach on behalf of the world's polar bears. Photo copyright Dan Guravich/Polar Bears International. read more
View ArticleBering Finds Time to Care
Bozeman, Montana (July 12, 2016) – BERING, the Scandinavian watch company that celebrates the pure, cool beauty of the Arctic, is continuing its commitment to polar bears through a donation of more...
View ArticleGlobal action on climate change is needed to ensure the polar bear's...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released the final version of the Conservation Management Plan for polar bears, following an extensive public comment period. The plan represents nearly four...
View ArticlePolar bears may come to mind first when thinking of animals affected by...
What About the Ringed Seals as the Arctic Climate Warms? read more
View Article2016 Third Hottest Year in a Row, Sea Ice at Historic Low
0. NOAA and NASA, who held a joint press conference to discuss the news, said this is the third year in a row to break that dubious record. read more
View ArticleWith one team in Svalbardand the other in Deadhorse, Alaska, PBI staff were...
Over the past two weeks Polar Bears International conducted fieldwork in two locations on opposite sides of the North Pole, setting up camera traps to record the behavior of polar bear families after...
View ArticleA new study investigated the polar bears use of crosswinds in finding their...
Polar bears make their living on the sea ice by searching for and eating their main prey, seals. But how exactly polar bears search for their prey has remained unknown, until recently. Our research...
View ArticleThe den study cameras captured images of the polar bear mom and cub exploring...
What happens when a female polar bear decides to den next to an active oil field production area in northern Alaska? What could have been a risky move for the mother bear turned out positively after...
View ArticleNew technology lets scientists analyze fat samples from polar bears to...
Have you ever wondered how scientists can estimate what polar bears are eating? It would be great to follow polar bears around all day and track their foraging patterns (Dr. Ian Stirling and his...
View ArticleBanrock Station Wines is once again providing support for polar bears and...
As part of its global commitment to conservation, Banrock Station Wines is once again providing support for polar bears and their fragile sea ice habitat. The grant to Polar Bears International will...
View ArticlePolar bear tracks near the village of Barrow, Alaska. More frequent polar...
At a recent meeting with biologists and social science researchers, Joe Kaleak, an Iñupiaq from Alaska’s North Slope, explained that hungry polar bears often try to break into his house, attracted by...
View ArticleWhy Arctic Sea Ice Matters: Ringed Seals
Ringed seals live across the circumpolar Arctic. They are an ice-dependent species. During the winter and spring, they create breathing holes in the ice, maintaining multiple openings to help avoid...
View ArticlePolar bear attacks are rare, but are expected to increase in a warming...
For the first time ever, wildlife managers and people who live and work near polar bears have access to a comprehensive new report on polar bear attacks. While not exhaustive, the study tallies...
View ArticleTwo male polar bears wander on the sea ice fairly close to each other--the...
The first polar bear sighting came sometime before 6 a.m., a few days after we had left port. The next came an hour or so later, when the initial male was joined by a second, picking his way among the...
View ArticleOur thanks to the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund and the Point...
Scientists consider Western Hudson Bay polar bears one of the more vulnerable populations in Canada, with longer ice-free seasons impacting their long-term survival. Some studies have indicated that...
View ArticleWatching a red fox leap to catch lemmings, bury the small ones for later...
What an amazing couple of days in Churchill, Manitoba, polar bear capital of the world! read more
View ArticleSeals are the polar bear's main prey. The bears also enjoy occasional eggs...
u?Polar bears evolved several hundred thousand years ago when the first grizzly bears wandered out onto the sea ice and began to hunt marine mammals. Since then polar bears have become highly adapted...
View ArticlePolar Bears Returning to the Ice
This year’s Polar Bear Week brought good news for the Western Hudson Bay polar bears, with frigid temperatures and blizzard conditions setting the stage for the earliest freeze-up seen in recent years....
View ArticleNews Release: Polar Bears and the Climate-Change Denial Machine
In a new paper published today in BioScience, a diverse team of scientists examines the misinformation about polar bears circulated in Internet blogs. Led by Jeff Harvey of the Netherlands Institute...
View ArticleStarving Polar Bear Draws Attention to Climate Change
A video of an emaciated polar bear filmed last July near Baffin Island, Nunavut by Paul Nicklen of SeaLegacy has gone viral across social media, putting a face to the challenges polar bears face in a...
View ArticleBlack Parkas Help White Polar Bears
Winnipeg, Manitoba - December 19, 2017) – Five limited-edition Canada Goose parkas proved highly popular in a recent online auction by Due West Clothing, with full proceeds donated to Polar Bears...
View ArticleMist-shrouded mountains loom over icy waters in Russias Franz Josef Land, an...
At its most northerly point, Franz Josef Land sits a mere 560 miles from the North Pole: closer than any other land in Eurasia, closer than anywhere else on Earth, in fact, except for parts of...
View ArticleKeeping Polar Bears and People Safe
What causes a polar bear to attack? How can attacks be prevented? And what are the best ways to defuse potentially dangerous encounters? read more
View ArticleThe Polar Bear Specialist Group has focused on polar bear research and...
Note: The brief note below, written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Polar Bear Specialist Group, is summarized from a much broader examination of the Agreement on the Conservation of Polar...
View ArticleAlaskan Natives Share Perspectives
On Alaska’s North Slope, people from four Inupiaq communities—Wainwright, Barrow, Kaktovik, and Nuiqsut—cross paths with southern Beaufort Sea polar bears at various times of the year. The first three...
View ArticleProject Polar Bear Winners
Project Polar Bear, a five-month-long competition from Polar Bears International that challenges teams of young people to design and carry out long-lasting community projects that reduce CO2, has...
View ArticlePolar Bears Listed as Threatened 10 Years Ago
Bozeman, Montana (May 14, 2018) – Ten years ago to the day, the U.S. granted polar bears protective status under the Endangered Species Act. Yet polar bears are now more imperiled than ever—by a...
View ArticleAt a recent workshop sponsored by Polar Bears International in Vienna,...
That was the essence of Polar Bears International’s first European Workshop on Polar Bears and Conservation Science, held at the Vienna Zoo in April. read more
View ArticleCountdown to Arctic Sea Ice Day
Sea ice. It’s an essential habitat for polar bears and many other Arctic animals—a frozen platform that allows an entire ecosystem to function. read more
View Article2018 World Ranger Day Award
Every year, Polar Bears International recognizes an individual or team working on the front lines of polar bear conservation to reduce conflict between polar bears and people, a growing problem as more...
View ArticleBy watching the Beluga Cam and taking part in the Beluga Bits Project,...
The Beluga Cam has returned to Canada's Hudson Bay, giving viewers the chance to see live footage of these fascinating whales. Polar Bears International launches the cam each summer in partnership with...
View ArticleThe Endangered Species Act is a conservation success story, with 99 percent...
s? Individual comments carry far more weight than petitions. read more
View ArticlePolar Bears International is helping to fund two key research projects...
Take a look at a population status map for polar bears and you can’t help but notice that the entire Russian coast is marked as “data deficient.” In fact, the vast Russian Arctic contains the least...
View ArticleThe polar bear's listing as a threatened species under the Endangered Species...
This year is the tenth anniversary of the polar bear’s protection as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. read more
View ArticleA polar bear mom and cubs rest on the sea ice off the coast from the Arctic...
A prime polar bear maternal denning area in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could be disrupted by seismic testing if the Trump administration proceeds with a proposed oil...
View ArticleJoin us in celebrating Canada's new carbon pricing plan, which experts say is...
Break out the seal fat, unfurl the northern lights—and join us in a big hurrah to Canada for its new carbon pricing and dividend plan, which will go into effect in January.read more
View ArticleWhen the author started studying polar bears in 1984, the Churchill denning...
With 19 polar bear populations across the Arctic, we are seeing 19 different scenarios play out as sea ice conditions change at different rates (and in different ways) across the polar bear’s range....
View ArticleTwo male polar bears spar on the tundra while waiting for the sea ice to...
It's Polar Bear Week, and while we hoped for frigid weather, continued mild temperatures and calm winds have once again revealed open water in tundra ponds near Churchill. A light dusting of snow...
View ArticleSea ice is more than a hunting platform for polar bears--it forms the basis...
If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you love polar bears. Who doesn’t? They’re easy to love. The result of eons of evolution, polar bears possess a seemingly endless set of cool adaptations...
View ArticleThe Western Hudson Bay polar bears are back on the sea ice, where they can...
Plunging temperatures gave Churchill’s polar bears a timely return to the sea ice this year—a happy departure from the freeze-up delays of some recent years. As the bears fanned across the ice to hunt...
View ArticleAlthough polar bears can handle pollution better than most species, a recent...
The new pollutants were in 13 different types of chemicals that include break-down products of known pollutants with both chlorine and fluorine.read more
View Article"When it comes to fixing climate change, we need all options on the table and...
International Polar Bear Day is coming soon: February 27th. On this awareness day, we draw attention to the challenges polar bears face in a warming Arctic and the urgent need to act on climate.read more
View ArticlePolar bears can't walk to the U.N. climate talks to ask for help. Instead,...
For the fifth year, Christopher J. Carter represented Polar Bears International (PBI) at COP24, the U.N. climate talks, held in December in the heart of Poland’s coal country. Having a delegate at the...
View ArticleThe North West Company's donation to Polar Bears International will help fund...
The North West Company has announced a major gift of $50,000 to Polar Bears International, a nonprofit dedicated to conserving polar bears and their sea ice habitat. The donation will support the...
View ArticleInternational Polar Bear Day Aims to Protect Moms and Cubs
Take action with the “Protect Moms and Cubs Challenge” and support research happening now; tune into scientist chats, a film premiere, and the Northern Lights Live Camread more
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