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Originally Posted by Bill14564
You already provided the answer to the hunting: $50,000.
As for the number increasing, don't know if that's even true and don't know what it has to do with warming. It's not difficult to imagine that the loss of normal habitat for the bears has forced them into new patterns and new areas that has led to a population increase. *IF* that is even the case.
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Bear numbers world wide are fairly stable ... at the moment, it seems. But the bears habitat lose has made their hunting of their normal prey far more difficult. If they can't hunt their prey then, ? Bears can't order from "door dash".
As to the numbers. Years ago polar bears were put on the endangered species list, and their numbers came back. Now, a native group in northern Canada is willing to take trophy hunters out on native land (for $50,000) to kill a polar bear.
All in all, polar bear numbers are a result of being given protected status, NOT because the polar ice is not melting.