A recent study has indicated that melting ice from global warming will kill off half of the polar bear population by 2050 and could wipe out the species in the wild. For the story, click here
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The current Polar Bear Population is at 25,000, in the 1960s it was at 5,000. That means that even if half the current population dies there will still be 2 and a half times as many polar bears as there were in 1965. Furthermore, over 2/3s of all Polar Bear Deaths are related to hunting, not global warming. Also the 2 subpopulations where there are definitive downward trends are in 2 locations where it has been getting colder.