...In their neverending search for food, polar bears travel vast distances, often jumping into open water and swimming for several hours. Stirling once watched a polar bear hunting for several days in Radstock Bay in the High Arctic when it suddenly changed direction, plunged into the water and disappeared. The next day he got a radio message from a colleague who spotted the same marked animal a 100-kilometre swim away...
...Stirling understands why some Inuit hunters have a difficult time accepting his and colleagues' findings. It not only means they will have fewer polar bears to hunt themselves, but also fewer bears to give up to the lucrative sport hunting industry. An American or German hunter will pay $25,000 or more for a guided hunt. He also accepts the Inuit contention that they are seeing more bears in some places than they have before...
(If you read this report you'll see how difficult it was to weave the climate-change bullsh*t into it.)