Sentences with phrase «bear habitat»

I wondered what the similarity in extent for 2013 and 2009 might tell us about polar bear habitat development over the next month or so.

And as climate change accelerates, polar bear habitat will be put in ever increasing danger.

ABOUT BOO Boo lives at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort in the largest enclosed grizzly bear habitat in the world.

A one - day Grizzly Bear viewing sightseeing expedition to Knight Inlet, one of the longest on BC's coast, and prime Grizzly bear habitat

Polar bear habitat in the Arctic Basin this year appears to have reached its apex days earlier than average.

Female grizzly bears and Scandinavian brown bears move away from male territory after giving birth, often choosing areas far from the best bear habitats.

«It seems likely there were still pockets of suitable polar bear habitat available during past warm periods, but the question is whether that will hold for the future.»

The facilities at Brooks Camp — lodge, employee housing, and visitor center — are located in perfect bear habitat.

The proposed action (Alternative # 5 — Beaver Pond Terrace) called for a reorientation of management and use to more adequately preserve and interpret the area's globally significant Alaskan brown bear viewing opportunities and prime brown bear habitat, and to manage these elements as integral parts of an evolving environment that also contains nationally significant cultural resources, scenic values, and world - class sport fishing opportunities.

It is pushing for new oil and gas drilling in polar bear habitat while biologists for Interior Department, prodded by legal action, recommended the bear be given threatened status under the species act because of the warming of the Arctic and summer retreat of sea ice.

Predicting 21st - century polar bear habitat distribution from global climate models.

However, according to NSIDC Masie figures, polar bear habitat at mid-May registers about 12 million km2, just as it did in 2006 (although it is distributed a little differently); other data show spring extent has changed little since a major decline occurred in 1989, despite ever - rising CO2 levels.

This is the largest enclosed and protected grizzly bear habitat in the world.

Knight Inlet is prime Black Bear and Grizzly Bear habitat, Bald Eagles, Orcas and other wildlife are abundant, fishing is superb, and the river system supports a phenomenal fall salmon run.

Nude Bee Honey works with beekeepers from around the world to preserve ecologically important bee hives, while Canada Goose allocates funds from the sale of every parka from its PBI Collection line to support the conservation of polar bear habitats.

Some argue that, since it is illegal to engage in activities that could harm or kill threatened or endangered species, Americans should be forced to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to preserve polar bear habitat.

The model also suggests that education targeting the border areas between the residential community and bear habitats will have the biggest impact on limiting bear conflict.

Rep. Edward J. Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, accused the Bush administration of not going far enough to protect the polar bear, noting that the Interior Department included exemptions to the decision that do not address the reason the sea ice is melting and allowing oil drilling to continue in a major polar bear habitat.

Our Grizzly Bear Refuge — home to Boo, our resident grizzly — is the world's largest enclosed and protected grizzly bear habitat.

U.S.G.S. reports forecasting strong declines in polar bear habitat and numbers were keys to that decision.

Tagged Canadian Ice Service, CIS, Davis Strait, most ice in 25 years, National Snow and Ice Data Center, NSIDC, polar bear, polar bear habitat, polar bear status, sea ice extent, spring sea ice

Tagged Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, polar bear habitat, polar bear movements, polar bears, polar bears in winter, satellite collars, sea ice, Southern Beaufort, tracking polar bears, USGS

Detrimental effects include loss of polar bear habitat and increased mobile ice hazards to shipping.

Are these carbon - hungry «microalgae - powered» street lamps the key to saving polar bear habitat and coastal cities from annihilation?

In a news release, U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne stated, «loss of sea ice threatens and will likely continue to threaten polar bear habitat.

The best known consequence of disappearing sea ice in the Arctic is the loss of the polar bear habitat.

It took lawsuits and petitioning efforts by the Center for Biological Diversity, NRDC, Greenpeace, and other organizations to overcome the resistance to this listing, which would have profound implications on how polar bear habitat is used — that is, whether its arctic territory would become territory of oil companies as well.

«Supporters of the listing want the federal government to declare global warming as the direct cause of harm to polar bear habitat, sea ice, and consider limits on utilities and industry producing greenhouse gasses, not only in Alaska but throughout the country.»