Mammalia · Carnivora
Polar Bear
Ursus maritimus
Classified ecologically as a marine mammal, spending the majority of its annual life cycle hunting on frozen ocean pack ice.
- Realm
- Marine
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Data provenance
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and version Evidence snapshot
A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 37 licence-filtered records across 21 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
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