Polar Bears
Have you ever seen those beautiful, snow white but aggressive wild animals living in the deserted snowy areas? If not for real, you might have seen them at least on the television once (on Discovery channel for example). But the sad thing is, there are not many of them left. Due to the changes in climate and global warming to hunting, they have reduced in number.
Impacts of Global Warming on polar bears
Global warming has been on the priority list of environmentalists for a long time now. But, they were unable to garner the required support because most of the changes occurring due to global warming were either away from the public eye or too mild to attract attention. But, now they have an issue that can serve as an eye-opener, though a delayed one. Polar bears, those huge mammals with white fur who roam about on the white sheets of ice on the poles, have been declared to get into the endangered species list in a spam of about 45 years from now, all because of global warming.
The rise in temperatures around the globe has caused serious melting of ice at the poles, which happens to be the habitat of polar bears. With shrinking living area, polar bears have started living a precarious life and a number of such bears are prone to die because of the difficult life style imposed on them due to global warming. To add to the difficulties, the habitat of the polar bears is difficult to create artificially and hence, we cannot help preserve the species like we can do it with others.
Polar bears can swim a lot and have great stamina. Hence, they are used to go far away looking for food and then swim to the blocks of ice to rest. With melting ice, the gap between the ice blocks keeps increasing and hence, polar bears are prone to exhaust themselves by swimming unexpectedly long distances. This increases their chances of drowning or dying of exhaustion. Also, global warming has reduced the availability of food for these bears and this has added to their worries.
Fighting the Impacts of Global Warming on polar bears
To save polar bears, we need to take steps to reduce global warming and restrict the oil exploration in the Arctic. But, the Bush administration is against the restriction of oil activities in the Arctic and it is imperative that environmentalists will have to find out other ways to doing the job. WWF has predicted that about 2/3rd of the current population of polar bears will be finished by 2050 and this itself is reason enough to press the panic button and take some real steps if we want to keep seeing those big white bears around.
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