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A white paper entitled “Uses of harvest information to estimate demographic parameters for polar bears (Ursus maritimus)” authored by Eric V. Regehr, Melissa P. Galicia, Erik M. Andersen, Fernando Ugarte, Evan S. Richardson and Amelie Roberto-Charron has been published on the Polar Bear Range States website.
The purpose of the white paper was to provide an understanding of information that can be gained from harvested bears to inform subpopulation status, as well as the type of study that may be required for a comprehensive subpopulation assessment. The white paper constitutes the Deliverable D1 “Report with recommendations for harvest data collection and how harvested bears can inform subpopulation status” under CAP Objective 4 (Ensure that harvest of polar bear subpopulations is managed in a biologically sustainable manner in accordance with sound conservation practices), Action HM-A6: “Develop methods to collate available data from harvested bears and how to analyze that data.”
The white paper can be viewed and downloaded here
