Yes, they are in good shape, despite the negative predictions of our closest neighbour. We have found that the population of polar bears has in fact increased because the polar bears are starting to come inland. The ice is melting. Polar bears live on ice and they hunt on ice, so when they have no food they start coming to the inland regions of the Arctic. In fact they are going into communities.
That's where the concern is right now. The threat to polar bears is not the hunting, it's climate change, and we have no control over what's happening on climate change. If it becomes ice-free, I don't know what's going to happen to the polar bears. They may adapt. I don't know. I'm not a scientist. But we know for sure they are becoming a threat more and more to the people who live in the communities. As you know, polar bears are vicious animals. They're beautiful, but they are nevertheless vicious.
Now we have polar bear watches in some of our communities when children go to school. Everybody walks to school. They don't want the children to confront polar bears in their community, because they do come into the communities.