Sentences with phrase «bear specialists»
Some polar bear specialists warn that the pace of projected human - driven warming could present greater challenges than prolonged warm spells of the past.
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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.
Polar bear specialists Andrew Derocher and Steven Amstrup recently spent inordinate energy trying to refute the opinion piece I'd written for the Financial Post in celebration of International Polar Bear Day last month, ignoring my fully referenced State of the Polar Bear Report for 2017 that was released the same day (Crockford 2018) and the scientific manuscript I'd posted last year at PeerJ Preprints (Crockford 2017).
The UK born specialist in the pay - to - play scene; is well - known and respected through his consultancy KWP; and as a prolific writer and presenter (along with his own news service The Stinger Report), covering the emergence of the new entertainment market.
Luke is being succeeded as Distell's Asia Pacific GM by Harry Kartasis, another Australian - born specialist with extensive expertise in travel retail across the region.
I queried a variety of ice and bear specialists about a letter sent last week to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar by a group of climate scientists.
Polar bear specialists made global population numbers the focus of the world's attention when they predicted a dramatic decline and possible extinction of the species.
Polar bear specialist Mitch Taylor emailed me and others his response to the New York Times article that appeared Tuesday (10 April) about the Harvey et al. (2018) BioScience paper attacking my scientific integrity.
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.
Yet, as I reported yesterday, polar bear specialist Andrew Derocher told the CBC this week that polar bears are almost always «forced» ashore by poor ice conditions.
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.
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.
«This paper ties it all together and shows a very clear relationship between the disappearance of sea ice and increasing predation intensity on seabirds,» says Andrew Derocher, a polar bear specialist and Arctic ecologist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
That was one conclusion of the Polar Bear Specialist Group, a network of bear experts who met last week in Copenhagen to review the latest data (and data gaps) on the 19 discrete populations of polar bears around the Arctic.
I also sought reactions from some polar bear specialists and biologists focused on DNA clues to when the species split from its brown bear kin.
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).
Mitchell Taylor, PhD, Biologist (Polar Bear Specialist), Wildlife Research Section, Department of Environment, Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada
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That's good news for the polar bears, but bad news for the Polar Bear Specialist Group, the highly politicized organization of wildlife «scientists» that receives massive funding and favorable media coverage for regularly claiming that hoary arctic predators are perilously close to extinction due to human - caused global warming.
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?
«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.
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.
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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?
Pessimistic polar bear specialists are wrong — polar bears are much more resilient to low sea ice levels in summer than they assume: their own data from low summer ice years proves it.
The Barents Sea polar bear subpopulation boundaries, courtesy the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group.
Meet Dr Dag Vongraven, chairman of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Polar Bear Specialist Group:
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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But since polar bear specialists have consistently underestimated the adaptability of this species and the resilience of the Arctic ecosystem to respond to changing conditions, it's hard to take any of their hyperbole about the future of polar bears seriously.
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Few people know that Arctic ringed seals (Phoca hispida, aka Pusa hispida) give birth and breed in the offshore pack ice in the spring, as it is seldom mentioned by either seal or polar bear specialists.
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».