Canada, which has 16, 000 of the 20, 000 to 25, 000 polar bears left in the wild, says polar bear populations are not threatened and the animal does not meet the Appendix 1 criteria.

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Wild reindeer, Arctic fox and polar bear are a regular presence in the town's hinterland, even as Svalbard is littered with reminders of the hunting expeditions which for centuries drove many Arctic species to the brink of extinction.

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"The polar bear does not have a small wild population, it does not have a restricted area of distribution and no marked decline has been observed, " Environment Canada says on its website.

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Kirby Martensen claims in his lawsuit, filed October 11 in the Northern District of California, that he was interrogated for hours at Bear Ranch, a replica of an old wild west town that Koch has built outside of Aspen, Colo.

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The wildlife broadcaster Chris Packham acknowledges that a polar bear in captivity loses the ability to relate to bears in the wild.

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In 2011, the BBC denied misleading viewers of Attenborough's frozen planet series with footage of newborn polar bear cubs filmed in an animal park, rather than in the wild.

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