The wild polar bear population is not one single nomadic group. Instead, scientists from the IUCN Species Survival Commission divide the Arctic into 19 relatively discrete subpopulations spread across five nations (The Range States): Canada, the United States (Alaska), Denmark (Greenland), Norway (Svalbard), and Russia.

The total global population is estimated to be between 22,000 and 31,000 individuals, with a consensus baseline of approximately 26,000 wild polar bears.

Without definitive global intervention to halt sea ice loss, marine biologists project that two-thirds of the world’s polar bears could disappear by 2050. Nanoq Token directs its transaction fees to fund the precise population tracking and field research required to manage these 19 fragile zones.

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