Polar Bear Population 2024 By Year. Learn about the 20 populations of polar bears and how they’re faring. Determinations of population status and trends for all 19 circumpolar subpopulations are made by the iucn/ssc pbsg on an annual basis.
The town of churchill, located in manitoba, canada, is smack dab in the middle of “polar bear country.” every year, around july, when the local ice starts melting, it gets harder. There are about 600 polar bears in this western hudson bay population, about half what it was 40 years ago, but that’s still close to one bear for every resident of churchill.