Under the new plan, native people living in Alaska will now adjust the number of polar
bears they hunt depending on the rise and fall of the animal's population.
Not exact matches
The effects would be far reaching: Polar
bears and walruses would lose the ice they
depend on for
hunting and resting.
Global warming has caused big problems for polar
bears, which
depend on sea ice for access to the ocean so they can
hunt seals and other prey.
The
bears depend on
hunting seals on the surface of the sea ice over the continental shelf, most successfully from April to July.
Because they
depend on sea ice to
hunt seals, the polar
bear is considered threatened as global warming melts and thins ice in this region.