Sentences with phrase «latest polar bear population»

The only ones they provide are month - end averages (e.g. Feb / 1979), so I've provided an end - Feb and end - March for a few years (I threw in the map for Feb. 2007, the last year of the latest polar bear population survey in Davis Strait, at the very end):

Not exact matches

A new University of Washington study, with funding and satellite data from NASA and other agencies, finds a trend toward earlier sea ice melt in the spring and later ice growth in the fall across all 19 polar bear populations, which can negatively impact the feeding and breeding capabilities of the bears.

The International Conservation Union, in its latest red list of endangered wildlife, gave polar bears threatened status in May, projecting a decline of 30 percent by midcentury from current populations, mainly due to projected losses of sea ice in a warming world.

Tagged aerial survey, early breakup, endangered, invalid methods, later - than - average breakup, mark - recapture, polar bear, population estimate, Seth Stapleton, Southern Beaufort, Southern Hudson Bay, threatened, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Wapusk National Park, western hudson bay

The original article was a CBC article on how the polar bears of a tiny and specific population around Hudson Bay were having troubles because of a late winter freeze.

As late April is the peak of this critical spring feeding period for most polar bear populations, this is when sea ice conditions are also critical.