Hungry

Homeless

​Hunted

Polar bears are far less protected than you might think. Hundreds are killed every year for their skins and as hunting trophies - a total of almost 53,500 between 1963 and 2016. That's more than twice as many as are alive today. This trade is unnecessary and undermines the bears' chances to cope with climate change. Ending it is the most  immediate conservation action we can take for polar bears right now.
  
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What we do to help polar bears

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Sold out for their skins

International trade in polar bear skins undermines the future of the great white bear

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Read the report

Although climate change severely threatens their survival, up to 1,000 are killed for their skins and as hunting trophies each year.

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Polar bear hunting

Polar bears are still hunted down for their skins or as trophies. 

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Could there be too many polar bears?

Some Inuit communities insist that there are too many polar bears and climate change is not affecting populations. Scientists disagree.

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Polar bear facts

All about polar bear life, what they eat, how they raise their young, and more

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Video message from the Arctic

Our polar bear expert Ole Liodden sends a message of hope from the Norwegian arctic.

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