Polar bear · A marine bear whose seal-and-ice budget made Churchill, Knut and climate models into one public animal.
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Nicola · CC BY-SA 3.0
Berlin Zoo cub and welfare storm.
Knut (polar bear) (2006-2011, Germany) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Travel Manitoba · CC BY 2.0
Western Hudson Bay viewing town.
Churchill, Manitoba (buggy tourism, Canada) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Churchill-linked outreach.
Polar Bears International (cameras / science, United States / Canada) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Robert J. Flannery / Pathe Pictures · Public domain
Staged Arctic film.
Nanook of the North (1922, Canada / US) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
U.S. Government · Public domain
ESA-era projections.
USGS polar bear research (ice models, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Unknown author · Public domain
A European viewing and research ice.
Svalbard bears (Norwegian Arctic, Norway) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Pre-climate hunt treaty.
1973 Polar Bear Agreement (range states, International) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Original: IUCN Vector: Mysid · Public domain
Subpopulation honesty against a single cartoon.
IUCN PBSG (status tables, International) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
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A Coke bear and a Churchill photo are not a circumpolar mean. PBSG tables exist to resist that collapse.
2008 named ice. Courts later narrowed the policy reach. The biology did not wait for the footnote.
Asia largest cat whose subspecies map, 1973 Project Tiger and remaining 4,000-odd wild animals define a century of recovery arithmetic.
Overall 62 🦁A social pantherine whose prides, Gir relic and 2015 Cecil killing still structure African conservation politics.
Overall 66 🐘The atlas type is the bush elephant -- an ecosystem engineer whose ivory ban (1989) and split from forest elephants still structure African conservation.
Overall 61 🐺A Holarctic pack hunter whose 1995 Yellowstone return and older Leopold ethics still structure predator politics.
Overall 78 🐼A bamboo specialist whose WWF logo, Wolong quake and 2016 IUCN downlist from EN to VU made a recovery into a brand.
Overall 41 🦍The atlas type is the western gorilla -- a knuckle-walking ape whose Fossey-era mountain cousins and Koko lab fame split one public name.
Overall 45 🐋The largest animal whose 1966 IWC protection, 1982 moratorium and still-thin Antarctic recovery define a hunted giant.
Overall 65