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Information About Polar Bears
Polar bears are progressively coming to be endangered due to many issues consisting of industry activities, ice in their natural environment melting, as well as human aspect. By far the biggest culprit is the modification in the natural environment of the polar bear. Various life-threatening situations are created for these cold climate bears when the ice melts. Global warming that is associated to industrialization as well as projects such as driving a car, burning coal, and more human ventures generates the ice melting.
The Bear Basics
Polar bears are a large varieties that make their homes on the frozen Arctic ocean. The bears will shell out the majority of their lives on the ice. Males can easily grow up to ten feet in span and weigh in at over 1,300 pounds! The bears are actually carnivores, meaning they eat the meat of additional Arctic animals. At present there are actually predicted to be actually merely 20-50,000 Arctic polar bears left in the wild. They are on the Endangered Species Listing.
When polar bears are actually on land they are actually more most likely to come face-to-face by having a predator, people. Frequently people hunt polar bears as prizes and additional individuals eradicate polar bears while defending themselves. People more influence polar bears when companies construct infrastructure in their natural atmosphere, consequently changing it irrevocably.
Who Is Helping, and Just how
Principal contributors to the match to cut the Arctic Polar Bear consist of the Coca-Cola Provider and the Globe Wildlife Fund. Collectively these organizations are raising hard earned cash to investigation exactly what is creating international climate change as well as working with governmental agencies to control greenhouse gasoline exhausts. More significant projects consist of energies to prevent unfavorable human connections including poaching as well as extreme tourism as well as guarding critical environment spots such as birthing dens.
Know-how is power. Emerge as additional enlightened regarding this critical subject by dropping by Polar Bears at World Wild Life.
19 Comments
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what are we doing to help the the polar bears form getting extinction?
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Survival of the fittest. If they can’t adapt.. they don’t deserve to continue. That’s the way nature works. But FYI they’re managing just fine, once again the “chicken little” enviro-nuts are picking are picking single area for use in their “proof of doom” The bears are doing just fine as a whole.
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The group Environmental Defense–of which I am a member as well as other animal protection coalitions/groups have an online petition campaign of email for the U.S. senators/other government leaders of the group who handle wilderness legislation. It is being voted and planned right now how to proceed with regulating Alaskan drilling and keeping the polar ice caps from melting too much and leaving the polar bears w/out ice floes which they use as jumping/standing platforms for finding food.
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almost everyone likes polar bears and physically, we are doing nothing to save them. Polar Bears are drowning.
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I don’t believe anything at all is being done. And even if there was a will to do something, we’d be at a loss to know what could be done that would work.
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Male polar bears eat all the baby polar bears they can find which decimates the polar bear population! This appears to be part of their natural behavior. I don’t think we can change their natural behavior and make them stop this cannibalism!
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Effect of Extinction? What effect, if any, does the extinction of polar bears have on humans? I know other species, such as honey bees becoming extinct, has a very large impact, but what about losing a species due to global warming (even if you believe it’s nonexistent)? What are the immediate or long-term effects to humans, direct or indirect? I’m welcome to theories but if you don’t have a clue and are making up bologna, please refrain from posting an answer. Thank you!
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Biodiversity decreases. Polar bears, eat seals. Assume polar bears go extinct, there are now more seals, because there’s one less predator to hunt the seals. Now what the seals eat, will decrease in population, so say a type of fish reduces in population, then people cannot eat that type of fish as often. It doesn’t seem that significant, but let it grow over time… and see what happens.
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Well, if you OVERfish our seas (which the fishing industry is doing) it is REMOVING the main food source for polar bears. if they don’t have enough food, they starve – and that is how fishing kills polar bears.
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I think the fact that the polar icecap is shrinking is possibly a bigger threat to the bears.
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seals eat fish polar bears eat seals , no fish means no seals , no seals means no polar bears
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well , it’s like me taking your meals away, you’d not last long.. over fishing means, that fish don’t have time to re-fresh their numbers.. thats why they have quota’s to stop over fishing.. remove something from the food chain. and it has a knock on effect… take even the spiders… bats eat spiders… spiders catch flies.. without them there would be horrid flys everywhere.
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A disruption in the food chain will always see repercussion down the chain. We as humans have created this.
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Polar bears primarily eat seals. Seals need fish to live. No fish, no seals, No seals and you get hungry Polar Bears.
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What is the point of saving the POLAR BEARS? (I keep seeing that ad on TV asking for donations to save them). Polar bears kill other animals like seals: http://assets.panda.org/img/polarbear_eating_14560.jpg Polar bears are worthless and I hope Darwinism leads them to extinction, so why do these ppl pay good money for TV ads to try and save them?. Zotdirector – if they serve such an instrumental part in the balance of their ecosystem and nobody is hunting them in huge numbers, then WHY are they going extinct?…..sounds like Darwinism to me Annie – I don’t want to kill polar bears, I’m just saying that they are worthless and we shouldn’t help them (not that you’ll probly like that answer much better) You ppl are aware that sharks also eat seals right?…..polar bears aren’t their only predator…and like I said if they are naturally going extinct then screw them, let them go extinct Eric – you just HOPE not many ppl agree with me (otherwise show me the poll)…..and nobody is building roads and skyscrapers in the arctic, so I dunno what your idiot /ss is talking about that we are invading their habitat — loser
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Fortunately, few people agree with you. Polar bears are endangered because their habitat is being destroyed. They are an essential part of a complete ecosystem – if they disappear, the entire ecosystem is at risk. Fortunately, some cells suitable for cloning are being preserved for a worst-case scenario, but we should still do everything we can to preserve the polar bears.
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well what’s the point of saving humans? we’re doing no good to mother earth anyway; am i right? polar bears do NOT have an instrumental value…but they have an intrinsic value, like EVERY OTHER SPECIES on this planet. instrumental means they help/contribute to the environment. intrinsic means they have their own value for being there. and of course polar bears kill other animals, how else are they going to eat? and why are they going extinct? uh, not exactly “Today there are about 25,000 of the furry white critters, more than any time in the 20th century. Meanwhile, the World Wildlife Fund found that of the 20 polar bear populations worldwide, only two are decreasing. And guess what. Those are in areas where air temperatures have fallen, not risen. So, we?re losing bears where it?s getting cooler. Hm. Not much to blame global warming for there.”
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My subject matter pertains to the extinction of the species. How many species of animals throughout the earth? become extinct say every day, month or year? How come we only hear of the polar bear, the whales, the panda bear, gorillas, elephants, etc. all generally zoo animals and nothing of other species? For example, the lowly skunk gets run over by cars almost everyday but no one cares. Come to think of it zoo animals generate revenues and thus are protected from extinction. Also “comfort” animals such as cats and dogs are also protected not because of kindness to these animals but rather because they give much “cozy. cuddly” comfort to the owners.
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Yes but the skunk isn’t going to be wiped out any time soon – it has a sustainable population. The reason we hear about polar bears, gorillas, whales, etc is because these are animals that are having a hard time sustaining their population due to habitat loss, poaching, etc. Zoo animals do not generate enough revenue to protect their wild counterparts. If they did – the passenger pigeon never would have went extinct. In fact, the last bird died IN a zoo. If you can’t effectively breed the animals in a zoo (e.g., Whales) then it is very hard to offer a solid conservation effort that will really help in the long run. They are doing the best they can, but it’s contributions and entrance fees to the zoo that help them afford these efforts in the first place.
