IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group

This is the official website for the Polar Bear Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission

At this website you can at any time find comprehensive and updated information on polar bears. You will find updated and official status of all subpopulations of polar bears. You will also find documents from all previous meetings of the PBSG, since the first meeting in 1965. You will find a searchable database of more than 1,000 polar bear articles, mostly scientific, articles and links to further reading on threats and important conservation issues. Finally, there is a news section where all relevant news items will be published continuously. If you have questions about polar bears or if you have suggestions to how these website can improve, please feel free to contact us. 
International Union for Conservation of Nature    IUCN Redlist      Webpage hosted by: Norwegian Polar Institute
This page was published March 15. 2009