Reports

Icon on Ice: International Trade and Management of Polar Bears

  • Canada
  • Greenland
  • Norway
  • Pan-Arctic
  • Polar bear
  • Russia
  • United States

A report from the wildlife trade monitoring organization TRAFFIC concludes that the major threat to polar bears is not international commercial trade, but habitat loss due the rapid melting of their preferred sea ice habitat.

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By WWF Global Arctic Programme

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