They’re adorable, cuddly and completely vicious. Polar bears grab the admiration as well as attention of people the world over for their fluffy white coats as well as huggable size. They achieve respect from pet fans for their hunting skill as well as survival tactics in one of the harshest atmospheres on Earth. But regardless of their mind-boggling recognition these giants are in risk of being wiped off Earth completely.
The Bear Basics
Polar bears are a enormous animals that make their homes on the frozen Arctic marine. The bears will certainly spend the majority of their lives on the ice. Males can grow up to ten feet in period as well as weigh in at over 600 kilos! The bears are actually carnivores, meaning they consist mainly on a diet made up of the meat of additional Arctic animals. At present there are predicted to be actually merely less than 50 thousands Arctic polar bears left in the wild. They are actually on the Endangered Species List.
Intervention in the form of authorities controls to lower mortal influence has been actually highlighted as a concern in America and additional nations. In addition, private providers and interest groups go on to lobby as well as perform with the authorities to safeguard this valued animal in its natural habitat. Apart from government intercession, additional analysis concerning world-wide warming is actually crucial so that the temperature alteration may be put a stop to or turned around. There are agencies that are actually raising hard earned cash for this extremely objective. One more method communities are actually assisting the polar bear is actually to make use of trained bear patrol agents to keep the land bound polar bears from people as well as to make sure that the bears are actually not contending also passionately with the folks for the food sources on land.
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So, according to the federal government: http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/profile/speciesProfile.action?spcode=A0IJ Polar Bears are “Threatened” which means they aren’t endangered, but have their own protected habitats. Now, in finding that you made me curious, so I went out to the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Wildlife and looked up the bear hunting regulations. It does not actually look like there is a season for hunting polar bear. Black, Brown, and Grizzly yes, Polar, no. So I would encourage him to double check. I’m not an Alaska resident so I may have just missed it. Alternately, it could be that certain tribes of eskimos are allowed to hunt polar bears as part of their eskimo traditions. This is something like indian tribes in Washington being allowed to hunt whales. Now that being said, many sources show that the population of polar bears is actually growing and several sources project them coming off the threatened list in the not too distant future (at least according to some of the reference sites when I was looking for the federal classification) so while I am sure the World Wildlife Fund would be more than happy to take your donation – they may spend it on Panda rather than Polar bears. Thinkingblade
First of all just because the population is decreasing, does not mean that it is decreasing everywhere. (Grizzlies are endangered in most places but are in great shape in Alaska and parts of Canada and Siberia) Some areas may be overpopulated and need hunting to get control. (too many predators will ruin an ecosystem) Also there are several sub-species of polar bears, some are endangered and some are not.
arent they prospering right now, the global warming people keep saying they are dieing but im pretty sure their numbers are increasing
stop global warming!
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“Recently, global warming increasing and Antarctica has been affected.” What? First, this is not a sentence. Second, you are retarded. There are no Polar Bears in Antarctica (which you strangely spelled correctly). “Polar bears can swim, but the problem is there is no ice in front of them for them to surface but a huge mass of sea when their territory melted as well.” Then where did they get into the water? Are Polar Bears having birth at sea? If so, this is a huge step in evolution. “(ice)” Oh, thanks for clearing that up. “What’s the solution to this?” Take an English class and watch the Discovery Channel
I seen the same program about this on TV. It’s a bad situation and has me worried as well. I am glad you posted a question about it and really hope you get some intelligent answers. I don’t know what we can do..Is this irreversible? Will polar bears become extinct? I felt so bad seeing the skinny mother with her cubs. For those who don’t care about bears don’t realize when animals start dropping from the food chain, everything is effected and this kind of change is drastic and no doubt devastating to us all. I wish more people would take it seriously… I am sorry I don’t have the answer to your question, but I am behind you 100% for your concern. I hope a solution is found very soon too.
what are the effects of polar bear extinction? what are the short term and long term effects of polar bear extinction? how will it effect the world economically, socially, politically, and culturally? what will happen to other animals?
Well polar bears are really cute, the media & environmentalists just use the polar bear as an example of what can occur because of your climate change, but many different animals, plants, etc, would be affected greatly by a climate change. They just choose one specific animal, so the public can digest it easier. If the polar bears were to become extinct, whatever they are predators do would overpopulate, there would still be other kinds of bears, just not the polar bears. But climate change as a whole would completely change the world. People would have to be evacuated from places where they are unable to live because of extreme temperatures, and little island nations would be completely wiped off the map.
…This is truly a difficult question.The short term impacts and economical impacts is probably towards the Zoos.For enviromental effect it will damage the Food web in the artic very severely,depending on the importance of the species it will have a huge or small scale of impact in terms of enviroment.Socially…well the only thing I can think of is Animals Activist raging against the Government for doing nothing to save the Polar Bears.Culturally and Politically…this is unlikely to be honest….back to the food web topic.If the food web is damaged,it is likely that other animals will go extinct along with the Polar Bears and the animals Polar Bears hunt(Seals and fish) will over-populate and cause a negative impact on the enviroment.
This is a hard question
Why should we save polar bears from extinction? im doing a persuasive paper on polar bears and how we should protect them from extincion [[open special zoos for them]] but i cant think of any reasons why theyre useful to us or why we should save them? help!
First thing, polar bears are not going extinct. The only way to protect a large roaming predator is by protecting its habitat. That means large tracts of land and ocean, would have to be classified as polar bear refuges. Within these there would be areas off total protection.
If you cannot think of a reason animals are useful to the planet than you obviously have NO understanding of what an ecosystem is. EVERY animal on the planet has it’s niche or place in it and serves an important function. Every animal on the planet is dependent on one another, when one species dies out it can negatively affect another species, possibly causing it’s extinction as well, and so on, and so on. I suggest you have your teacher teach you some basic biology/ecology before assigning a project like this.
I believe it has to do with polar bears ability to keep the population of other animals down. If you do not have polar bears, then the animals that get hunted and eaten by the bears would grew in numbers and thats bad. bear eat seal; seal eat fish no bear to eat seal, lots of seal eat lots of fish; danger to another population… etc and etc
Well consider that it is pretty sad for any animal to become completely extinct. We should try to preserve all life, human or nonhuman. You also have to consider that polar bears keep the other artic wildlife in check from overpopulation and things such as that. But they aren’t going extinct just yet, it is mostly a precautionary because there is a risk they might.
It would mess up the food chain.
Polar Bears are doing good, they never were near extinction. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Will_Polar_Bears_ever_go_extinct
yes they are because the closer we get to global warming the less time polar bears have on ice and if they run out of ice they can only swim for so long
The threat to polar bears is long term and they do face extinction within a century if the ice continues to retreat but their numbers at the moment do not put them at risk.
yes they are
No, at the moment polar bear populations are mostly okay. A few are declining, but if the planet stayed in its current state, polar bears would be just fine. The problem is that polar bears need Arctic sea ice to hunt. If too much sea ice melts too soon, they can’t hunt, and if they can’t hunt, obviously they starve. Here is the long-term trend in Arctic sea ice extent: http://nsidc.org/news/images/20081002_Figure3.png So while polar bear populations are currently okay, they’re considered a threatened species because of this.
Don’t go up to the arctic without a gun. Polar bears kill people, and there are lots of them.
What Species of animal do you think will be the next to be extinct?Or close to extinction? I think the Polar bear will be the next due to Global warming and the Ice melting…
suprisingly, about a species goes extinct about every 6 hours because of all the habitat loss
In America, white people seem to be on a significant population decline. I believe they now make up only about 66% of the population in the U.S.
Polar bears maybe but I am betting on humans as the next species to go don’t ya think we are the only one killing ourselves not for survival but for greed.
Mountain Gorilla, African Elephant, Siberian Tiger, several bird species in Hawaii.