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Editors: Jon Aars, Nicholas J. Lunn, and Andrew E. Derocher
| Contents | Author(s) | Page |
| Foreword | 1 | |
| List of participants | 3 | |
| Agenda | 7 | |
| Minutes of the 14th Working Meeting of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group | 11 | |
| Status of the polar bear | 33 | |
| Resolutions of the 14th Meeting of the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group | 57 | |
| Press release | 61 | |
| Polar bear management in Alaska 2000-2004 | S. Schliebe, T.J. Evans, S. Miller, C. Perham, J. Wilder and L.J. Lierheimer | 63 |
| Polar bear research in Alaska | G.M. Durner, S.C. Amstrup, G. York, E.V. Regehr, K.S. Simac, T.S. Smith, S.T. Partridge, T. Bentzen, K. Amstrup and D. Douglas | 77 |
| Polar bear management in Canada 2001-2004 | N.J. Lunn, M. Branigan, L. Carpenter, K. Chaulk, B. Doidge, J. Galipeau, D. Hedman, M. Huot, R. Maraj, M. Obbard, R. Otto, I. Stirling, M. Taylor and S. Woodley | 101 |
| Research on polar bears in Canada 2001-2004 | E. Richardson, M. Branigan, W. Calvert, M. Cattet, A.E. Derocher, W. Doidge, D. Hedman, N.J. Lunn, P. McLoughlin, M.E. Obbard, I. Stirling and M. Taylor | 117 |
| Polar bear management in Greenland | J. Lønstrup | 133 |
| Research on polar bears in Greenland 2001-2005 | E.W. Born and C. Sonne | 135 |
| Polar bear management and research in Norway 2001-2005 | J. Aars, A.E. Derocher, M. Andersen, D. Vongraven, M. Ekker and Ø. Wiig | 145 |
| Polar bear management and research in Russia 2001-2004 | S.E. Belikov, A.N. Boltunov, N.G. Ovsianikov, G.I. Belchanskiy and A.A. Kochnev | 153 |
| Research on polar bears autumn aggregations on Chukotka 1989-2004 | A.A. Kochnev | 157 |
| Research and conservation of polar bears on Wrangel Island | N.G. Ovsianikov | 167 |
| Line transect estimate of the subpopulation size of polar bears in the Barents Sea | J. Aars, M. Andersen, S. Belikov, A. Boltunov, S.T. Buckland, T.A. Marques and Ø. Wiig | 173 |
| Appendix 1: Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears and Their Habitat | 177 | |
| Appendix 2: Annex E, Resolution on Special Protection Measures, and a recent related resolution from the PBSG | 179 | |
| Appendix 3: Recent publications and reports 2001-2005 | 181 | |
| Appendix 4: Numbers allocated to each country for eartags and tattoos used in polar bear management and research | 189 |