Sentences with phrase «bear specialist group»

International Union for Conservation of Nature — State of the Polar Bear — Polar Bear Specialist Group — Also wearing whites are everybody's favourite bear — which are on the rise in only one portion of the circumpolar world, as this dynamic chart shows.

Sadly, although completing a global survey was one of the primary objectives of the Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) at its inception 49 years ago, it has so far been unable to do so because at least four subpopulations have never been counted.

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The Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) led by researchers like Andrew Derocher, Steve Amstrup and Ian Stirling warned the world that «two thirds of the world's bears will be lost by mid-century due to climate change».

That year, the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group booted 20 - year member Mitch Taylor out of their organization, explaining that his skeptical views on human - caused global warming were «extremely unhelpful» to their polar bear conservation agenda.

Recent research by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Polar Bear Specialist Group, 8 populations are declining, 3 are stable, 1 is increasing, and there is insufficient data to assess the other 7 subpopulations.

Based on such studies Dr. Derocher, chairman of the IUCN's Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) warned, «It's clear from the research that's been done by myself and colleagues around the world that we're projecting that, by the middle of this century, two - thirds of the polar bears will be gone from their current populations».

Tagged Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Crockford, first year ice, Gulf of Boothia, ice - free, IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group, IUCN Red List, Kane Basin, Lancaster Sound, multiyear ice, Northwest Passage, PBSG, predictions, sea ice, wrong

It shows just what lengths desperate IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) biologists will go to in order to link the recent decline of Southern Beaufort bear numbers to global warming while ignoring similar past declines.

This is the 1st anniversary of Canada providing population estimates and trends independent of the pessimistic prognostications of the IUCN / SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG)-- so let's celebrate the recent triumphs and resilience of polar bears to their ever - changing Arctic environment.

The IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group and conservation organizations like Polar Bears International routinely tout the IPCC as the highest arbiter of science on issues of present and future climate.

Tagged activist organizations, Donna Laframboise, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group, Pachauri, polar bears, Polar Bears International, politics, Rajendra Pachauri, science and religion

Tagged Beaufort Sea, climate change, Derocher, Eastern Beaufort, extinction, feeding, future, global warming, IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group, models, Pilfold, polar bear, population, predation, predictions, Red list, ringed seals, Southern Beaufort, Stirling, thick spring ice, threatened

Brandon seems to have taken his stats from the IUCN / SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group, and in particular this page which shows the different regions of their studies, and this table, showing the available data.

IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group is the same group that are the source of this latest definition of polar bear knowledge.

John Sauven: If you look at the recent IUCN polar bear specialist group they said that of the 19 populations of polar bears, 8 are declining, 3 are stable, and one is increasing.

Different things in different parts of the Arctic, but here is what the Polar Bear Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission say about it:

Dr Andrew Derocher, chairman of the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group, said Lomborg's book was based on outdated statistics because the group had published an updated report in 2006, which showed that of 19 populations five were declining, five were stable and two were increasing; and for the remaining six there was not enough data to judge.

The eastern Barents Sea (located in Russian territory), as defined by the Polar Bear Specialist Group (see map below), provides ample habitat for polar bears to thrive despite extended fluctuations in seasonal sea ice cover in the western portion.

Meet Dr Dag Vongraven, chairman of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Polar Bear Specialist Group:

IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group, July 6, 2009, http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/polar-bears/will-polar-bears-survive 36.

The Barents Sea polar bear subpopulation boundaries, courtesy the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group.

The question is, will the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) consider this new polar bear count to be reliable or complete enough to include in their next IUCN assessment?

Tagged Amstrup, BBC, Carbon Brief, declining population, declining sea ice, Derocher, GWPF, IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group, Kara Sea, media attention, PBSG, polar bears, population estimates, rapid response team, The Times, threatened, vulnerable, Webster

In a posting on his website entitled, «How «Science» Counts Bears or Why it Takes a Village,» Steele explains why the polar bear counts of Canada's native Inuits are more accurate and scientific than the politicized computer modeling of the IUCN's Polar Bear Specialist Group.

«The IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) should have been disbanded in 1996, the year polar bears were down - graded from a status of «vulnerable to extinction'to «lower risk — conservation dependent» (now called «least concern») on the IUCN Red List,» Professor Crockford writes.

Is there a mutiny in the works between the IUCN Red List and the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) over polar bear population estimates or has there simply been a breach of ethics?

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However, Davis Strait bears have been upgraded to «stable» status, according to the latest table (2013) issued by the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (see their boundary map for Davis Strait bears below).

But David Garshelis, a conservation biologist at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in Grand Rapids and co-chair of IUCN's Bear Specialist Group, disagrees.

In 2009, the Polar Bear Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported that eight polar bear subpopulations are declining, three are stable and one is increasing.

The study's results currently are used by the International Union for Conservation of Nature's polar bear specialist group, which completes assessments of polar bears and issues the species» conservation status.

Not exact matches

They included: the Irish - born George Frederick Folingsby (1828 — 91), who arrived in Australia in 1879 and became Master of the School of Painting at the NGS in 1882; the Swiss artist Abram Louis Buvelot (1814 — 88) who arrived in 1865 and taught at the Carlton School of Design in Melbourne; the English - born art teacher Julian Ashton (1851 — 1942) who settled in Sydney where he ran one of the best art schools in New South Wales; the English - born plein - air specialist A.J.Daplyn (1844 — 1926) who arrived in Australia in 1882 and shared his experience of Fontainebleau and the Barbizon School of landscape painting, before later writing a book entitled Landscape Painting from Nature in Australia (1902); the Italian - born painter Girolamo Pieri Ballati Nerli (1860 — 1926), influenced by the Macchiaioli group, who first lived in Melbourne before moving to Sydney in 1886; the Portuguese - born plein - air artist and Symbolist painter Arthur Jose De Souza Loureiro (1853 — 1932).

Mitchell Taylor, a Canadian expert on polar bears who was in the specialists» group for many years, told some reporters that he was excluded this year because he disputes that the bears are in danger and that human - caused global warming poses a substantial threat to them.

«The PBSG is the authoritative source for information on the world's polar bears,» declares the PBSG / IUCN / Species Survival Commission website, «and one of IUCN / SSC's more than 100 specialist groups that work to produce and to compile scientific knowledge about the world's species and give independent scientific advice to decision - makers and management authorities.»

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