World Wildlife Fund

Species

Conservation Firsthand

Join Shannon as she tracks tigers – the largest of all cats.
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Travel

Travel With WWF

Visit our travel section and choose from many amazing trips! Learn more

Adopt a Polar Bear

Adopt Polar Bear

Make a symbolic Polar Bear adoption to help save some of the world's most endangered animals from extinction and support WWF’s conservation efforts.
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See Polar Bears with WWF

Travel with WWF to see polar bears in the wild.

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Polar Bear

Polar Bear Multimedia

Podcasts

Geoff York on Polar Bear Conservation

Videos

Geoff York speaks from the middle of a blizzard

The Tundra Buggy team speaks from Churchill, Manitoba

Geoff York: Green Finger Project

Watch WWF's Margaret Williams on the organization's opposition to Department of Interior’s (DOI) controversial Lease Sale 193.

Sea ice images

Google Earth and Google Maps the wildlife and WWF polar bear

The Polar Bear Patrol

Researchers Carrying Out Tests on a Polar Bear

Tracking Polar Bears

Tagging Polar Bears

Tranquilizing a Polar Bear

Weighing a Polar Bear

Polar Bears in Peril

Polar bear - victim of climate change

Observations on Climate Change in the Arctic

Voyage for the Future: Youth Observations on Climate Change

WWF Canada: Polar Bear Clip 1

WWF Canada: Polar Bear Clip 2

WWF Canada: Polar Bear Clip 3

Sparring Behavior of Male Polar Bears from the "Tundra Buggy"

Mother Polar Bear with Her Cubs

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Danger Watch

A species relative risk of extinction, as determined by the IUCN - The World Conservation Union. More

Extinct

No reasonable doubt that the last individual has died.
Extinct in the Wild

Known only to survive in cultivation, in captivity or as a naturalized population.
Critically Endangered

Facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
Endangered

Facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.
Vulnerable

Facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.
Near Threatened

Likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future.
Least Concern

Does not qualify for Critically Endangered, Endagnered, Vulnerable or Near Threatened