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Objective 5 - Actions
Develop, and post to the RS website, core polar bear safety messages for a general audience and more detailed guidelines for specific user groups (e.g., industry, guide-led tourist groups, hunting/subsistence camps, researchers) as needed
Summary of the Action:
Develop, and post to the RS website, core polar bear safety messages for a general audience and more detailed guidelines for specific user groups (e.g., industry, guide-led tourist groups, hunting/subsistence camps, researchers) as needed. One such product is tourism-operator guidelines to be published on the RS website and shared with The Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators (AECO) etc.
Action Lead:
Karen Lone (Norwegian Environment Agency, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Participants:
Sub-group:
Tom Smith (US)
Geoff York (PBI)
Sam Iverson (Canada)
Dick Schideler (US)
Martyn Obbard
Duration of action:
2020-2023
Deliverables (output):
- D1. A document containing core safety messages and how they can be communicated to a general audience
- D2. Safety messages guidelines for tourism-operators
- D3. Safety messages guidelines for industry
- D4. Safety messages guidelines for independent traveler
- D5. Other tailored guidelines for specific user groupsA document containing core safety messages and how they can be communicated to a general audience.
Impact (outcome):
The action will ideally change people's behavior in a way that leads to fewer and less severe conflict situations or negative outcomes from conflict situations.
Dissemination:
The finished products / documents will be posted to the Range States website and available for Range States representatives and other CWG members to bring to stakeholders and otherwise use. Specific guidelines will also be communicated specifically to user groups in question – for instance for tourism the umbrella organization AECO.
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- Parent Category: CAP 2020-2023 Implementation Plan
- Category: Objective 5 - Actions
Develop standardized polar bear attack response protocols
Summary of the Action:
This action will create a template that can serve as a basis for any entity throughout the Range States that wishes to develop a site-, area-, or community-specific polar bear attack response plan.
Action Leads:
Karen Lone (Norwegian Environment Agency, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Lindsey Mangipane (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Participants:
Sub-group members:
Lindsey Mangipane, U.S.
Craig Perham, U.S.
Olga Krever, Russian Federation
Duration of action:
Twelve months, flexible timing for start-up if needed (suggested start-up and timeline is noted below).
Deliverables (output):
- A template that identifies the primary elements necessary to safely and effectively respond to incidents involving human injury/mortality caused by polar bears. This template can then be customized to create site-, area-, or community-specific plans within each Range State or jurisdiction.
Impact (outcome):
Developing this guidance has been identified as a need in several jurisdictions; having a template that provides guidance on what key elements should be included in all attack response will help ensure that response is conducted in a consistent manner (to the extent feasible) throughout the Range States. This will both increase Range States’ readiness, as well as allow for data sharing about incidents, which in turn, will increase our mutual understanding about the factors that lead to polar bear attacks on humans and how to prevent them in the future.
Dissemination:
The final product will be disseminated to all CWG members to share with their stakeholders, and will be posted on the Range States web site.
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- Parent Category: CAP 2020-2023 Implementation Plan
- Category: Objective 5 - Actions
Establish baseline for human injuries and deaths using existing data from 2006-2015
Summary of the Action:
The Range States intend to report the number of humans killed or injured by polar bears over time. Action HBC-A4 will develop a baseline number of bears killed and injured. Annual reporting of this metric will then be carried out under action HBC-A5 so that the Range States can track trends over time.
Action Lead:
Lindsey Mangipane (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Participants:
Sub-group members:
Karen Lone (Norway)
Jesper Ødegård Jacobsen (Greenland)
Sam Iverson (Canada)
Lindsey Mangipane (U.S.)
Alexander Gruzdev (Russia)
Duration of action:
June 2020- November 2020
Deliverables (output):
- A baseline number of humans killed by polar bears annually from 2006-2015
- A baseline number of humans injured by polar bears annually from 2006-2015
- A baseline number number of incidents in which humans were killed or injured by polar bears (i.e., were multiple humans killed or injured in one incident).
- The number of humans killed or injured by polar bears annually from 2016-2019 (and the number of incidents in which injuries or deaths occurred in) to document progress since CAP implementation
- A graphic representation of the data that can be displayed on the PBRS website
Impact (outcome):
This baseline can be used as a metric from which to gauge current and future progress towards meeting Objective 5: Manage human-bear interactions to ensure human safety and to minimize polar bear injury or mortality. Additionally, data will be compiled from the time of CAP implementation through 2019 that can be used to evaluate progress from the baseline.
Dissemination:
The baseline can be displayed on the Range State website alongside the baseline developed for HBC-A3 (Establish baseline for bear injuries and deaths using existing data from 2020) and annual reporting for HBC-A5 (Report findings on human-bear conflicts which end in injury or death [to bears or humans] annually on the RS website for each country or subpopulation).
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- Parent Category: CAP 2020-2023 Implementation Plan
- Category: Objective 5 - Actions
Report findings on human-bear conflicts which end in injury or death (to bears or humans) annually on the RS website for each country or subpopulation
Summary of the Action:
The Range States want to report annually on their website the number of polar bears killed and injured, and the number of humans killed and injured, to track how this is changing over time. This action concerns establishing the format and routines for this in 2022 and 2023. Reporting of the baseline data and the data for 2020 is covered in closely related actions HBC-A3 and HBC-A4.
Action Lead:
Karen Lone (Norwegian Environment Agency, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Participants:
Sub-group members:
Lindsey Mangipane (US)
Sam Iverson (Canada)
Jesper Ødegård Jacobsen (Greenland)
Duration of action:
2020-2022. The action is currently formulated as an indefinite, ongoing action. However, the action will be considered complete when the Range States have reported for two years in a row, and the reporting routines are established.
Deliverables (output):
- External: Table that is published on the Range States website with the number of incidents in any year, that is updated annually.
- Internal CAP deliverable: Reporting template and routine for how the reporting takes place.
Impact (outcome):
Tracking the development of conflict over time. Information sharing with the public which can contribute to raising awareness.
Dissemination:
Table to be published on Range States Website.
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- Parent Category: CAP 2020-2023 Implementation Plan
- Category: Objective 5 - Actions
Establish baseline for bear injuries and deaths using existing data from 2020
Summary of the Action:
The Range States intend to report the number of polar bears killed and injured in human-bear conflict situations over time. Action HBC-A3 will develop a baseline number of bears killed and injured. Annual reporting of this metric will then be carried out under action HBC-A5 so that the Range States can track trends over time.
Action Lead:
Lindsey Mangipane (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Participants:
Sub-group members:
Karen Lone (Norway)
Jesper Ødegård Jacobsen (Greenland)
Sam Iverson (Canada)
Lindsey Mangipane (U.S.A)
Alexander Gruzdev (Russia)
Duration of action:
June 2020- April 2021
Deliverables (output):
- A baseline number of polar bears that were injured or killed by humans in conflict situations in 2020.
- Definitions of “bears killed in conflict situations” and “bears injured in conflict situations”
- A graphic representation of the data that can be displayed on the PBRS website
Impact (outcome):
Although a baseline from before the CAP was implemented in 2015 would be the most informative metric for gauging progress, conflict data was not collected in a consistent way among the Range States in the past. In some jurisdictions, conflict bears are legally removed through subsistence harvest, and are therefore reported as harvest rather than conflict removals. This distinction has not been consistently documented in the past, and efforts are currently underway in some jurisdictions to improve reporting. Therefore, to accurately measure progress towards reducing conflict related mortality in the future, we hope to acknowledge the above-mentioned inconsistencies and establish a baseline using 2020 data. The 2020 baseline can then be used to gauge progress toward meeting Objective 5: Manage human-bear interactions to ensure human safety and to minimize polar bear injury or mortality.
Dissemination:
The baseline can be displayed on the Range State website alongside the data from HBC-A4 (Establish baseline for human injuries and deaths using existing data from 2006-2015). In subsequent years, HBC-A5 (Report findings on human-bear conflicts which end in injury or death [to bears or humans] annually on the Range States website for each country or subpopulation) will be reported in a format similar to what was reported for baselines.
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- Parent Category: CAP 2020-2023 Implementation Plan
- Category: Objective 5 - Actions