Stock Photo - Mother polar bear Ursus maritimus with COY cub-of-year feeding on a fin whale carcass in Holmabukta on the northwest coast of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway MORE INFO The IUCN now lists global warming as the most significant threat to the polar bear, primarily because the melting of its sea ice habitat reduces its ability to find sufficient food The IUCN states, ´If climatic trends continue polar bears may become extirpated from most of their range within 100 years ´

Stock Photo: Mother polar bear Ursus maritimus with COY cub-of-year feeding on a fin whale carcass in Holmabukta on the northwest coast of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard.

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