Mother polar bear and her two cubs "tucked in." You can see her claw marks where she dug out her first snow shelter. Photo by Carl R. Sams II.
The Interior Department proposed designating more than 200,000 square miles of land, sea and ice along the northern coast of Alaska as critical habitat for the shrinking polar bear population, according to the article “Polar Bear Habitat Proposed for Alaska” in The New York Times.
According to the article, the area, the largest single designation of protected habitat for any species. Learn more
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