If Polar Bears are Endangered, shouldn't a new colony be established in Antarctica to preserve the species?

Question

Polar bears are said to be endangered because of the melting ice in the Arctic so shouldn't a colony be established in Antarctic where the ice is expanding and Penguins would provide plentiful food supply?

Answer 1

Bio-diversity grasses and Polar Bears including other animals ans birds, must save/ preserve, in Antarctica Region.

Answer 2

Antarctica is melting too. However, there is more land under the ice so the bears wouldn't sink. They would eventually have to adapt and change their diet - no longer hunting seals & fish out on the ice.

Now what will happen to the Penguins when all the ice melts?

Answer 3

The polar bears are not endangered and would actually thrive with a warming weather patterns. The numbers of polar bears have increased.

A survey of the animals' numbers in Canada's eastern Arctic has revealed that they are thriving, not declining, because of mankind's interference in the environment

Answer 4

No way. Mankind messes around with too much as it is. However if you had suggested Iran? I'm all for giving it a go.

Answer 5

LOL...then what will you have us do with the endangered penguins.  

The dwindling polar bear population is just the latest propoganda being spread by the econuts.  With all this global warming, how can antartica's ice be expanding?

Answer 6

i think we need to secure the polar bear.

and wee need to established new colony in antartica to preserve it. i think u have great idea and we should do that. and we know how endengered species will lost from our world

Answer 7

The polar bare is not endangered , it is one of the meanest animals on earth. He can swim miles and the common joke of the zoo keeper ,it that u give him a basket ball of solid steal and he would tare it up.

Answer 8

You don't save a species by endangering others.  We have too many examples of man moving a species to a new Continent resulting in more damage than benefit.  The penguin have evolved flightless because there are no predators in Antarctica.  If you added polar bears they would probably wipe out the penguin.

Answer 9

Animal lovers won't hear of it.  Remember the way they wanted to kill a polar bear cub in Germany because it was raised in captivity?  They would look at the Antarctic bears as being illegitimate and demand their extermination.

Answer 10

A colony?  In case you hadn't noticed, they are endangered because it's melting...where would you put a colony?

Answer 11

Wow...you want to put polar bears on Antarctica, where the Emperor Penguin did NOT evolve with them and have the polar bears go in and eat entire collonies of Emperor Penguins?

By the way, you of course know tha polar bears main food is the ring seal....of which there are NONE in Antarctica, right?

Of course the problem would be that the seals that DO live in Antarctica only deal with predators from the sea (killer whales) and do no know, nor understand bears.  So of course the polar bears might well be able to wipe out entire species of seals....several of the Antarctic seals are on the endangered species list.

So what is fair?  Keep polar bears in their native habitat, and let them face possible extinction?

Or transport them to a continent where they have NEVER lived, and let the seals and penguins face possible extinction?

By the way, you do realize that 99.9% of the creatures that have ever walked the face of the earth, since the very begining have become extinct, right?  You also realize that creatures that specialize into little ecological niches slate themselves for quicker extinction, right?  (Bamboo eating panda bears,  eucalyptus eating koala bears, ice living/hunting polar bears, ect)

Animals that eat a diverse number of things, and can live in diverse habitats do much better, when the earth has a crissis, like warming, cooling, fires, drought, monsoons, ect.  

Polar bears specialized....they are loosing the evolution gamble.  Black bears diversified....they are winning the evolution gamble.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Active wildlife study over 40 years

Answer 12

Don't you think we've learned enough by introducing exotic species to areas to NOT do this?

Answer 13

thats a good idea!

Answer 14

Probably. I guess.... But if they make more colonies, won't they just die sooner anyways? But...if there WAS a new colony, then maybe they wouldn't be extinct. All I know is that no one probably cares to go down there and rescue some. Never heard of anybody, anyway. Put them in a freezer type of zoo or something. Especially females.

Answer 15

Polar bears depend on seasons found only in the arctic.  I would think that reproduction would be stunted in Antarctica.  

Antarctic is also losing mass and ledges are at risk.

There are programs that have undertaken the increase in population, but the fact is...move them around, increasing programs for reproduction, etc... they are endangered.  So are several penguin types.