Again, a question: If we're actually worried about polar bears, why are we allowing people to shoot high-powered bullets through the vital organs of many thousands of them per decade?

Polar bear habitat threatened | News | Wanderlust

Conservationists predict a dramatic reduction in polar bears over the next ten to 50 years with climate change as the biggest threat to their survival

Polar bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Soviet Union banned the harvest of polar bears in 1956, however poaching continued and is believed to pose a serious threat to the polar bear population...Until 2005 Greenland placed no limit on hunting by indigenous people. However, in 2006 it imposed a limit of 150, while also allowed recreational hunting for the first time...About 500 bears are killed per year by humans across Canada

Flashback: Polar bears: Close encounters between Arctic animals and humans on the rise | Alaska Dispatch

From July 2010 to July 2011, about 48 problem bears were killed in Nunavut.