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Polar Bear Research in Spitsbergen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Thor Larsen
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Abstract

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Scientists and conservationists in five circumpolar countries are collaborating in a programme of research on the polar bear so that management plans can be evolved to ensure the survival of this endangered ‘Red Book’ animal. The author, who is an ecologist in the Institutt for Matin Biologi in Oslo University, describes the work he has been doing on Svalbard (Spitsbergen).

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 10 , Issue 6 , December 1970 , pp. 368 - 372
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1970

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