Polar bear in 2006: Knut

IUCN VU and the 2008 ESA listing rest on ice-season length. A few stable stocks do not cancel a circumpolar ice forecast. High resilience in this atlas means secure (koi, many owls), not famous. What did the 2008 US listing change? It treated greenhouse gases as a listed-species threat. Courts later limited how far that could reach power plants; the biological finding stayed.

Western Hudson Bay is an early-ice-loss stock and a tourist town. It is a visible subpopulation, not the whole Arctic. A hand-reared Berlin cub (2006-2011) whose fame and death made zoo ethics a tabloid. He is culture, not a sea-ice time series. Seals (especially ringed) are the fat that pays. Bird eggs, carrion and land food appear more in long ice-free summers -- a budget problem, not a new niche that replaces ice.

What is Nanook of the North to this file? The 1922 film staged Inuit life for a southern camera. It is a portrayal, not an ethnography of nanuq knowledge. No. They are cultural impact. The atlas keeps them off the scores for ice. The IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group and USGS ice-bear models are the technical chorus behind the VU card.