Web links

General

• Society for Marine Mammalogy
• International Association for Bear Research and Management (IBA)
• IUCN Red list
• Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) (digest)
• The American Society of Mammalogists
• Species at risk in Canada
• Polar Bears International
• USGS Alaska
• Nunavut Environmental Database
• EDF Circumpolar Atlas of Environmental Concerns
• North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO)
• Wildlife Biology

Educational sites

• Space for Species

Species fact sheets

• Mammalian Species Online
• Mammalian Species Online - Polar Bear fact sheet

A selection of articles

• Polar bears in Alaska

Threats

• International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC)
• Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA)
• Bering Sea Impact Study (BESIS)
• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• AMAP
• Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
• UNEP POPs page
• UNEP Chemicals
• Alaskan Clean Seas
• Northern Contaminants Program (Canada)
• International Programme on Chemical Safety
• Pest Management Resource Centre (UK) Ecotoxicology pages
• World Health Organization fact sheets
• WHO Environmental Health Criteria Series
• WHO publications - chemical toxicity, carcinogenicity
• Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP)
• OSPAR Convention
• WWF's Polar Bear Tracker

General conventions and agreements

• Convention for Biological Diversity
• Convention on Biological Diversity (Canadian site)
• CITES
• Bern Convention
• Bonn Convention