Polar Bears International has launched its programme to help the recovery of the thriving population of the said beasts. In their post, the team have helpfully explained some of the problems they faced:
...our team faced a unique task: to create a recovery or management plan for a species whose primary threat is largely in the future, not the past.
I can see how that would be a problem. It's rather like something out of Minority Report, but instead of precrimes solved by precogs we will have premelts dealt with by prethinkers.
So I wonder how exactly the team are going to help polar bears "recover" from a disaster that has yet to befall them? Well first of all there is:
education and outreach
I guess this involves the preicers teaching the icebergs not to melt and "reaching out" to the glaciers and stuff like that. There is also going to be some...
harvest management
and
conflict reduction
The latter presumably involving the prethinkers identifying which polar bears are going to get into fights over mating rights and so on and separating them before they've even fronted up to each other.
It's science fiction happening as fact before our very eyes.