Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 11

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11. Acknowledgements

This report benefited from the many comments received during the peer review organized by M. Festa-Bianchet as the Species Subcommittee Chair (Terrestrial Mammals) and Gloria Goulet (Coordinator, Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge, COSEWIC Secretariat). We thank all of those that contributed their views to the content and structure of this report. We thank N. Lunn as chair of the Federal/Provincial/ Territorial Polar Bear Technical Committee (PBTC) for assisting with inquiries directed at the PBTC membership. The organization and materials presented in Section 7 and Tables 3, Table4, Table5 and Table6 of this report are based on work conducted by the authors in collaboration with members of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Working Group and the PBTC. We especially thank the many individuals who provided us with personal commentaries on the ecology and ATK of polar bears. F. Messier graciously provided us with the cover photograph for this report.