Every source I find shows the populations have decreased since at least 1977 except in the Davis Strait which has banned seal hunting. Even in areas where polar.
April 25, 2009
March 24, 2009
PETITION : Polar bears are dying – Care2 News Network
Scheduled for release next year, it says the number of polar bears in the Davis Strait area of Canada’s eastern Arctic – one of 19 polar bear populations worldwide – has grown to 2100, up from 850 in the mid-1980s. …
March 20, 2009
Climate change No. 1 threat to polar bears: Arctic nations – CKA News
ziggy: The Nunavut land claim group says that over one three-year period, polar bears in the Davis Strait were tranquilized 2371 times. About half the entire population of 2100 bears was at one time chased down by helicopters and shot …