hahaha was it one of those save the wildlife psa things by like sigourney weaver or noah wylie that informed you that polar bears are on their way to extinction? just wondering.
anyway, the polar bear population is actually pretty stable and some subpopulations are on the rise (the most recent data shows that less than half of the subpopulations contain declining numbers...the others are stable and/or increasing, or do not have enough data to draw a conclusion right now), but in certain areas (like the ones presented to countless sheep viewers in the shameful piece of propaganda - oops, i mean completely true scientific documentary known as "an inconvenient truth"), the ice has melted too much for them to perform their normal food-hunting habits and so they drown when trying to find food...but that's only a relatively small portion of the world's polar bears that that happens to. unfortunately, poaching, pollution, and oil spills are other causes for polar bear population decline that have been around (and i would argue, will continue to be around) since long before it was in style to be afraid of "global warming". but for now, the polar bear is not yet on the endangered species list, but IS on the threatened species list, so hopefully it will stay there for now and get off there eventually. native tribes in canada have actually been reporting rising numbers of polar bears on land, which many of them think means the population is increasing, but it may mean it is decreasing due to ice loss. no one's sure yet. hopefully it's the former. anyway, the point of all this is that i love polar bears and hope they remain our friends on earth for many years to come :-)
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ReplyDeletehahaha was it one of those save the wildlife psa things by like sigourney weaver or noah wylie that informed you that polar bears are on their way to extinction? just wondering.
ReplyDeleteanyway, the polar bear population is actually pretty stable and some subpopulations are on the rise (the most recent data shows that less than half of the subpopulations contain declining numbers...the others are stable and/or increasing, or do not have enough data to draw a conclusion right now), but in certain areas (like the ones presented to countless sheep viewers in the shameful piece of propaganda - oops, i mean completely true scientific documentary known as "an inconvenient truth"), the ice has melted too much for them to perform their normal food-hunting habits and so they drown when trying to find food...but that's only a relatively small portion of the world's polar bears that that happens to. unfortunately, poaching, pollution, and oil spills are other causes for polar bear population decline that have been around (and i would argue, will continue to be around) since long before it was in style to be afraid of "global warming". but for now, the polar bear is not yet on the endangered species list, but IS on the threatened species list, so hopefully it will stay there for now and get off there eventually. native tribes in canada have actually been reporting rising numbers of polar bears on land, which many of them think means the population is increasing, but it may mean it is decreasing due to ice loss. no one's sure yet. hopefully it's the former. anyway, the point of all this is that i love polar bears and hope they remain our friends on earth for many years to come :-)
haha it was noah wylie :]
ReplyDeletethat was certainly the most fascinating comment ever.
i love large [usually] non-domesticateable animals way too much and know way too much about them at times.
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