Mitchell Taylor

Mitchell Taylor, Ph.D., is a Canadian biologist specializing in polar bears who claims that Canada's polar bear population is higher now than it was 30 years ago and that polar bears are not currently threatened by climate change. He is currently a contract adjunct professor at Lakehead University [1], and he is affiliated with the Heartland Institute [2]. Taylor has been involved in research and management of polar bears for the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Territory since 1987. Dr. Taylor was a member of the Canada’s Federal–Provincial–Territorial Polar Bear Technical Committee until his retirement from the Nunavut government in 2008. Dr. Taylor has published over 50 scientific papers on polar-bear-related topics, and he has worked in the field on most of the world's polar bear populations. Most recently, he and colleagues completed the Davis Strait population inventory (one of the most southern of all polar bear populations), and he is a coauthor of the 2008 Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) Assessment and Update Status Report for polar bears. From 2004 to 2008, he was also manager of the decentralized and relocated Wildlife Research Section.