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Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI)

The Norwegian Polar Institute researches and monitors Arctic and Antarctic nature. Since the 1960s it has studied Barents Sea polar bears using capture-recapture and satellite tracking.

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Headquarters

Norway

Sectors

• habitat

Works on

• Polar bears losing sea ice - Western Hudson Bay population in decline Arctic, Hudson Bay (Churchill, Manitoba)

Field centres (2)

• Norwegian Polar Institute headquarters, Fram Centre (Tromsø) Norway
• Norwegian Polar Institute office in Longyearbyen (Svalbard) Norway

Sources

• npolar.no
• npolar.no
• npolar.no
• npolar.no

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