Circumpolar map of all polar bear subpopulation as recognized by the IUCN/Polar Bear Specialist Group in 2009 (PBSG 2010a). Total area covered = 24 mill. km2.
ZIP file includes image(PDF) files of each area (20 files):
Arctic Basin subpopulation area = 4.23 mill. km2 Baffin Bay subpopulation area = 1.08 mill. km2 Barents Sea subpopulation area = 1.69 mill. km2 Chukchi Sea subpopulation area = 1.84 mill. km2 Davis Strait subpopulation area = 2.62 mill. km2 East Greenland subpopulation area = 2.05 mill. km2 Foxe Basin subpopulation area = 1.18 mill. km2 Gulf of Boothia subpopulation area = 170,000 km2 Kane Basin subpopulation area = 155,000 km2 Kara Sea subpopulation area = 1.76 mill. km2 Lancaster Sound subpopulation area = 490,000 km2 Laptev Sea subpopulation area = 2.46 mill. km2 M’Clintock Channel subpopulation area = 500,000 km2 Northern Beaufort Sea subpopulation area = 940,000 km2 Norwegian Bay subpopulation area = 150,000 km2 Southern Beaufort Sea subpopulation area = 715,000 km2 Southern Hudson Bay subpopulation area = 1.14 mill. km2 Viscount Melville subpopulation area = 210,000 km2 Western Hudson Bay area = 500,000 km2
Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)
www.caff.is The data can be downloaded freely. Users are requested to reference it source.
Development of a pan-arctic monitoring plan for polar bears: background paper and should be cited as: Vongraven, D and Peacock, E. Development of a pan-Arctic monitoring plan for polar bears:background paper. Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme, CAFF Monitoring Series Report No.1, January 2011, CAFF International Secretariat, Akureyri, Iceland. ISBN 978-9935-431-01-1
Data Source: IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group
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