As an animal in a position to reflect the changing health and conditions of marine ecosystems ,the polar bear(Ursus maritimus) is now in need of a global plan of action for addressing the gaps between a global vision for sustaining a species and regional wild life management plans. Given the circumpolar habitat of polar bears as they are found in areas of annual ice cover over the continental shelves and inter-island channels of the archipelagos of Canada,Russian Federation, Greenland,Norway,and USA