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Canada Russia Atlantic Ocean Alaska Greenland Arctic Ocean Laptev Sea Chukchi Sea Southern Beaufort Sea Northern Beaufort Sea Southern Hudson Bay Western Hudson Bay Norwegian Bay Kane Basin Baffin Bay Foxe Basin Lancaster Viscount Melville Sound Gulf of Boothia ? ? ? Pacific Ocean East Greenland Kara Sea Barents Sea Davis Strait McClintock Channel ? Sound Produced by World Wildlife Fund Canada, May 2013. Sources: Polar Bear Technical Committee, 2013 Range Boundaries IUCN, 2012. Projection: North Pole Stereographic. © 1986 Panda symbol WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature (also known as World Wildlife Fund) ® "WWF" is a WWF Registered Trademark 0 1,000 500 km Trends in Polar Bear Subpopulations Subpopulation size No. of Bears <200 200-500 500-1000 1000-1500 1500-2000 2000-2500 2500-3000 Population Trend (2013) Stable Increasing Declining Data deficient Unknown ?

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Canada

Russia

Atlantic OceanAlaska

Greenland

Arctic Ocean

Laptev Sea

Chukchi Sea

Southern Beaufort Sea

Northern Beaufort Sea

Southern Hudson Bay

Western HudsonBay

Norwegian Bay

Kane Basin

Baffin Bay

Foxe Basin

Lancaster

Viscount Melville Sound

Gulf of Boothia

?

? ?

PacificOcean

East Greenland

Kara SeaBarents Sea

Davis StraitMcClintockChannel

?

Sound

Produced by World Wildlife Fund Canada, May 2013.Sources: Polar Bear Technical Committee, 2013Range Boundaries IUCN, 2012.Projection: North Pole Stereographic.© 1986 Panda symbol WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature (also known as World Wildlife Fund) ® "WWF" is a WWF Registered Trademark

0 1,000500km

Trends in Polar Bear SubpopulationsSubpopulation sizeNo. of Bears

<200

200-500

500-1000

1000-1500

1500-2000

2000-2500

2500-3000

Population Trend (2013)StableIncreasingDecliningData deficient

Unknown?