Western Hudson Bay sea ice breakup for polar bears like the 1980s for 3 of the last 5 yrs

…40% of all tagged bears being offshore is what I would call more than “some.”

State of the Polar Bear 2023: W. Hudson Bay polar bear numbers have not declined since 2004

From Polar Bear Science Susan Crockford In my State of the Polar Bear 2023 report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, I discuss recent news relevant to polar bear conservation and science issues.…

Polar bear researchers hiding significant increase in Southern Hudson Bay numbers

And surprise, surprise: the bombshell SH results call into question everything the ‘experts’ have been saying about polar bears in Hudson Bay for years.

Early-birthing polar bear female with new cubs out on the ice already in Western Hudson Bay

Remember this when the cries of “early” breakup of sea ice on Hudson Bay come in the summer: these WH bears routinely get a head start on spring feeding that other…

Recent paper on W. Hudson Bay polar bears includes new official sea ice freeze-up data

In other words, body weight data–so critical to the argument that the health of WH polar bears is declining due to sea ice loss–is still being withheld.

Where were the starving W. Hudson Bay polar bears in 2020 if the population had declined by 2021?

This makes it all the more significant that they have provided no actual evidence that WH bears are indeed starving to death in sufficient numbers to substantiate a 40% decline…

Six good years in a row for the polar bear subpopulation used to predict species demise

However, after last fall’s 1980s-like early freeze-up, this makes the sixth year in a row of good to very good sea ice conditions for Western Hudson Bay polar bears. No…

Fat polar bears [and lots of them] drive public confidence in future of the species

From Polar Bear Science What is causing the death of the polar bear as a climate change icon? Fat bears are part of it, but mostly it’s the fact that…