How To Save Polar Bears?
| August 15, 2012 | Posted by author under Uncategorized |
They’re cute, cuddly as well as absolutely vulnerable. Polar bears grab the admiration and recognition of people the globe over for their fluffy bright coats as well as huggable size. They gather honor from pet lovers for their searching skill as well as survival techniques in one of the harshest atmospheres on Planet. Yet in spite of their confusing attraction these giants are in threat of being actually wiped off Planet absolutely.
The Bear Basics
Polar bears are a enormous varieties that make their homes on the frozen Arctic marine. The bears will definitely shell out the majority of their lives on the ice. Males can easily grow up to ten feet in duration and weigh in at over 600 kilos! The bears are actually carnivores, suggesting they consume the meat of additional Arctic pets. At present there are actually estimated to be merely 20-50,000 polar bears left in the wild. They are actually on the Endangered Animal Listing.
Who Is actually Helping, as well as Just how
Significant contributors to the fight to cut the Arctic Polar Bear provide the Coca-Cola Business as well as the World Fauna Fund. Collectively these businesses are actually raising money to analysis exactly what is actually causing world-wide climate change as well as working by having governmental companies to manipulate greenhouse gasoline discharges. Additional principal jobs include energies to avoid unfavorable mortal interactions featuring poaching and remarkable travel and leisure as well as protecting critical environment spaces such as birthing dens.
One can easily get entailed in the mission to conserve the Arctic Polar Bears by functioning immediately by having the Globe Wildlife Fund. Start the rewarding quest today by paying a visit to Polar Bears at World Wild Life.
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Please save the polar bears Help Stop Global Warming? Something terrible is happening, thanks to Climate change those poor polar bears are going Hungry. sorry but we only have ourselves to blame for we cause this to happen, by not taking action against climate change by 2050 all polar bears will die on earth. to read more here is the article Cherry’s team believes that the increase in fasting bears is explained by warmer temperatures and earlier spring melts. Polar bears use sea ice as a hunting platform, catching seals by sitting next to their breathing holes and waiting to pounce. Spring is usually a time of feasting for polar bears, filling up before summer when the ice retreats. “It is clear that the changes in the sea ice are affecting the hunting opportunities available to the bears,” says co-author Andrew Derocher of the University of Alberta. What’s more, the early melting may also be resulting in a lack of prey. Sea ice is important to seals because they build dens for their pups in the overlying snow, explains Cherry, so their numbers may have dropped. Anecdotal evidence backs up the team’s conclusions, with many more sightings of polar bears swimming in open water and resorting to eating other food, such as fish. Previous work has also indicated that melting ice is drivingpregnant polar bears onto land to build their birthing dens. “If the ice continues to contract, which seems inevitable, polar bears will become even more nutritionally disadvantaged. The study proves polar bears are in serious trouble,” says Rick Steiner, a marine conservationist at the University of Alaska in Anchorage. As you see by this fact Polar bears are dying because sea ice is melting from global warming. Scientists think that 2/3 of all polar bears; including all in Alaska will be gone by 2050 due to losing 100% of their habitat. Global warming is causing the melting of sea ice and a decline in habitat and food, forcing the polar bears to swim farther distances than normal. The higher temperature is also causing the polar bears to overheat because of their layers of thick fur. The US Department of Interior announced that the polar bear will be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act on May 14, 2008, but the listing was filled with contradictions. For example, the administration signaled that it would take no steps under the Endangered Species Act to protect the polar bear from the massive oil and gas development currently planned in the very heart of its habitat. * Take Action! write this our government Dear United States of America I am deeply concerned about climate change in the Arctic and the threat this poses to the polar bear. Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at almost twice the rate of that of the rest of the world, and it is threatening to place the entire Arctic ecosystem in jeopardy. For the polar bear, an irreplaceable symbol of the Arctic, climate change could lead to their extinction. The polar bear depends on sea ice to survive, hunting for seal until the ice disappears every summer. As climate warming reduces the extent of the pack ice, the polar bear loses precious hunting time, and the number of polar bears declines. I call on the Government of United States to protect the polar bear’s habitat and slow the effects of global warming I call on the Government of United States to take the lead in protecting our natural heritage. We must provide international leadership in the battle against global warming http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AmazingAnimals/story?id=6567708&page=1
“Anecdotal evidence backs up the team’s conclusions, with many more sightings of polar bears swimming in open water and resorting to eating other food, such as fish.” Maybe this is their natural habitat and diet, and it is during cool periods that they are forced to live on ice and hunt seals. The fact that their population keeps increasing along with the temperature certainly ‘bears’ this out.
Perhaps you should investigate this more. Here is an example of how this issue is treated: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5664069/Polar-bear-expert-barred-by-global-warmists.html Two thirds of the world’s polar bears live in Canada. Let’s hear from a Canadian polar bear expert who has lived and worked in the Arctic for years: http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/2007/709/70914/news/nunavut/70914_498.html Doesn’t it make you the least bit suspicious when people are trying to exaggerate problems related to global warming in a effort to get you to believe there is something you can do about it? And let’s be clear, this sort of manipulation is not isolated to polar bear populations.
You have absolutly no idea what you are talking about! Quit spreading ignorance!
It is your fault for the ignorance.The polar bear population is up 300% we may need to kill them back,
Blah, why don’t you summarize?
What are some current event issues in the Northern Canada? For example: the polar bears extinction, climate change.
Current news from CBC North – http://www.cbc.ca/north/
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which animals are near extinction? please type as many and if you know any good websites that would be great
i know that polar bears e.t.c are nearing extinction but any unusual ones? BEST ANSWER FOR FIRST ANSWER?? YES THANK YOU BT NAME ME SOME!! 
About 1/3 of the world’s amphibian species are endangered due to the chytrid fungus and pollution.
There are loads and loads of animals nearing extinction or endangered. “With nearly a quarter of all mammal species and a third of amphibians threatened with extinction” this was from the World Wildlife Fund.
i think cod are – i know i though shut up too. i know that the suply is dwindling hence the reason why it’s better to have pollock
Will the extinction of polar bears affect the world? Will it affect us humans in anyway?
Seals would have one less creature to be hunted by and their population would probably reflect that. Of course this would probably mean that humans would probably just kill more themselves. Killer whales and sharks may also see a slight increase in their population due to an increased food supply. Treebug: Penguins live in Antarctica. Polar bears live in Canada and the Arctic. They do not interact with one another.
Well, for ordinary people with ordinary jobs, it does not have any effect. but for those whose jobs are extreme photographers or extreme film makers…it would affect their job.. but their are other more awesome things to photograph or film… but it would really be a big loss if polar bears go extinct. I haven’t seen one in personal yet
Did they change the definition of extinct to mean the population is increasing?
People have found Polar Bears drowned because of the ice has melted where they would usually have went. They hunt seals that are on “pack ice” which has melted due to global warming. The Polar Bears therefore have more trouble to find food. Im not sure if it is in 100yrs they will be extinct, but at this rate, it looks as though they may become extinct in the future.
Google “mitchell taylor” and “polar bears” and IPCC and see what you come up with.
The truth isn’t a simple as some would have you believe. Due to hunting practices, the polar bear population was declining rapidly until a number of countries placed regulation on these practices. Because of these regulations, the polar bear population began to rebound. Some people argue that we shouldn’t worry about polar bears because their population is increasing – this has nothing whatsoever to do with climate change. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear#Contemporary_regulations The reality is that polar bears need sea ice to hunt seals. Obviously if they can’t hunt, they starve. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear#Global_warming In fact the effects of poor nutrition have been observed in several polar bear populations. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2193/2006-180 This is because of the rapid decline in Arctic sea ice: http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/n_plot.png So while the polar bear populations are currently in decent shape, they’re listed as threatened because the sea ice they need to hunt is declining rapidly, and we’re starting to see the effects in some polar bear populations already.
There are more polar bears now than there were 50 years ago. About 4-5 times more. Talk about a lie within a lie – sheesh!
I seriously doubt that we will let such a singular species as the polar bear face extinction. but unfortunately, politics will prevent one of the worlds very few actual experts on the polar bears from making his research known. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5664069/Polar-bear-expert-barred-by-global-warmists.html this is but one of many of the negative results of the politicians dominating & attempting to suppress knowledge on what should be a purely scientific issue.
There is about 4 times as many as there were 50 years ago. That is pretty stupid criteria for endangered. They have been moving south which isn’t what you would expect from an animal that is being threatened with global warming. We are currently much cooler than we were during most of this interglacial so saying they are endangered is nothing short of asinine.
do you support the extinction of polar bears?
You have to consider the reason they’re going extinct. Is it because they cannot survive, or because of our meddling that they’re becoming extinct? There’s a big difference, and people often choose to ignore the latter circumstance, or pretend that it doesn’t happen. It’s just such a shame that breeding animals in captivity has a lot of potential problems to sort through.
No.
why would anyone support it? i mean u cant prevent it rly its inevitable but its not like im gonna go hunt them or something i think theyre cute and cool but everything will be extinct someday
No, but I know better than to go and try to pet one. Did you hear? The polar ice cap didn’t melt after all.
Yes. Brown bears are much more attractive….. Just kidding. I thought you’d like an answer that had racial overtones, Bob. You are something else.