Pretty funny but unless it's just a joke, I'm going to need a source before I can use this joke in the wild.
The claim was 5-7000 or so in the 50s https://polarbearsinternational.org/research/research-qa/are-polar-bear-populations-increasing-in-fact-booming/ but those numbers are oft quoted but unable to be verified as to source. That's where the first number comes from. I think, that truthfully, there's no accurate count from 70 years ago. But, since those unverified numbers are used by official sources...have at it.
Today, the accepted numbers are 21-30kish, which is where the second comes from. You can get that on pretty much any page, including the WWFs own.
What it boils down to is we don't know how many there were yesterday, but it doesn't stop the alarmists from using unproven numbers anyway.
Nice, thanks for the article and thre explanation.
The polar bear census was pretty weak back in the day, due to all the immigrant bears not being counted.
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