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International trade in polar bear skins and trophies undermines the species' survival. Please help us end it.
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Hunting polar bears as trophies or for their skins is an act of violence towards individuals, the species and biodiversity. Please help us stop it.
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Polar bears and climate change: Hunting polar bears for their skins and as trophies undermines the species' survival in a warming Arctic
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Polar bear fact file
Learn about the way polar bears live, what they eat, how they raise their young, and more! 
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Report: Polar bears are far less protected than you might think. People still kill them as trophies or for their skins, most of which end up in China.
Help us throw a lifeline to polar bears by putting an end to the growing international trade in polar bear skins
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In some areas in the Canadian Arctic more than 90% of polar bears targeted are large males. The number of polar bears killed during the 2011 and 2012 Canadian hunting seasons exceeded government hunting quotas by 11 percent, adding a growing number of illegal kills to the already high legal death toll.
The average price of polar bear skins at fur auctions in Canada has more than quadrupled between 2006 and 2014 (from CAD 1,311 to CAD 6,063).
In contrast to trade levels observed amongst the other four main polar bear skin importing countries, exports to China rose dramatically after 2006 (red line). Source: Liodden 2019, Polar Bears and Humans
