In your opinion what endangered animal is more important to protect now: the polar bear or the honey bee? Why?

Question

Bees numbers are down for the second year in a row, but we always here about the more about the polar bear, because the polar bear is the religious symbol for the new global warming religion.

Which one should be a priority on saving right now?

Answer 1

The bees are a must to keep our eco system in check. Without them our trees and flowers could not produce the fruits that we need to live healthy.

Not sure what the Polar Bear does for us anymore. Didn't they use to provide warmth.

Answer 2

Protect them from what?  Cross them, Bolar Pees, sometimes the simplest solutions are the most easily overlooked.  You could train them to cavort on fast dissolving ice cubes proving any number of Global warming theories.  Before you know it people will be saying they can't remember the last time they saw a Bolar Pee, till they sit on one and get stung in the asz or find their honey too runny.

Answer 3

well, i prefer Bear Skin Rugs over Honey myself~!!!

but if you're doin what i'm thinkin of doin, the Honey and the Bear Skin Rug would go well together~!!!

so i'll have to get back with ya after me and my lady discuss this issue~!!!

Answer 4

Bees are way more important.  Losing bees would affect exponentially more people than losing polar bears.

Answer 5

Honey Bees.

As you may know, the huge crops grown by farmers that we rely on to feed our population have to keep bee colonies out in their fields to pollinate their crops,

Without those bees, crops grown on such a large scale would not bear enough harvest product to be economically sound, or acually feed the population for whom it was grown.

Honey bee's are suffering a plague of a certin type of mite that is killing them off at an alarming rate. (whole colonies).

the ending result if left unchecked, is the extintion of the bee. And mass famine for us who rely on them so much for OUR food replenishment.

and now with the arival of alternative fuels, that are based on agriculture, and the quickly becomming impractical use of focel fuels. it is imperative to make extinct this type of mite.

that some might say in the near future, is endangered. and no one will see a live specimine again. ( with any luck!)

  the Polar bear lives in a very remote part of the world, and it is very difficult to get an acurrate count on their numbers.

  it is debatable if thay are acually in danger, and thair loss though sad, would effect our existance very little.

I regret to say that those bears feed off other creatures that are also deminishing.

what do you do if one indangered creature is killing another?... protect and expand their environment, and hope thay both make a come back.

Honey Bees? WE HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE EXTINT THIS MITE!

Kinda Ironic.

Answer 6

POLAR BEAR because they only breed one or two at a time and their chances of survival are 10%.

the honey bee breeds in thousands and they can be bred on a bee farm not in the arctic chill like the polar bear where their chance of survival is slim.

Answer 7

Honey bees are absolutely vital to growing any food.  Without their pollination, none of the food we grow will produce food.  

Bees form a vital link in the ecosystem that could collapse without them.  We could potentially lose not only the bees and food crops, but the animals that eat bees and honey as well.  

Polar bear numbers, I think I heard somewhere, are actually on the increase, but they are becoming more visible as we encroach upon their territories.  They are not really any more rare than the Grizzlies in their own habitat.

We can groan and moan about species of large animals dying out, but what it all boils down to is the fact that every colony of bees that disappears hastens our own extinction.

Answer 8

In one sense they both have equal importance in their own habitat, but if you're asking which is more important to human's survival, it would be the honey bee. 70-80% of our food crops depend on pollination by honey bees.

Answer 9

Bee's.hands down, due to the need for pollenization and such, but your question if flawed. Mainly because even though a few idiots in high positions had the power to put Polar Bears on the endangered list, they aren't endangered.

The Polar Bear population has more than doubled since 1974 which is just another reason we need to kick political correctness and whacko enviromentalsim to the curb before we destroy our economy and the free market even more.

Answer 10

The Polar Bear is NOT endangered.  Polar Bear populations are thriving!!

Answer 11

Well, I can't remember EVER seeing a polar bear.  

Polar bears could disappear and few would ever know the difference.  We all know bees are important.  Neither one is really endangered.

Answer 12

"They delayed (the bear decision) to get them beyond the Chukchi Sea leasing. And here we are on March 7, another 30 days and nothing has happened" The Interior Departments inspector general has begun a preliminary investigation into why the department has delayed for nearly two months a decision on listing the polar bear as threatened because of the loss of Arctic sea ice.A recommendation to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne was to have been made by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on whether to declare the bear threatened in early January. But when the deadline came, the agency said it needed another month, a timetable that also was not met

Answer 13

Polar Bears all the way because:

They don't reproduce as quickly and they are suffering for our mistakes. They have to swim for miles just to find some ice and most drown due to Global Warming. Bumble bees on the other hand can be bred easily as they are smaller and they care for themselves as the colony cares for the queen and protects her as well as the larvae. So polar bears should be protected.

Answer 14

If every polar bear on the planet died, we would never know the difference.  Honey bees, on the other hand, are vital to the food supply.

Without the services of honey bees, crop production would be a small percentage of what is currently grown.  I know, I have six hives.

Turn off the propaganda.  Stop listening to the nonsense about "Global Warming", and the poor polar bears.

Answer 15

O. K. where do I start.

The Honeybee is responsible for the pollination of billions of dollars worth of crops worldwide. If the Honeybees die out the world will very definitely have famine.

Currently there is an unknown something causing "sudden die out syndrome" in millions of bees around the world.

But, the bees also have 14 different viruses that kill them, micro scopic bee mites, varroa mite that has also destroyed millions of bees in the last 10 years alone.

2 or more types of foul brood that kills off the un born bees, harmful beetles, yellow jackets that eat bees, some birds eat bees, bear destruction, human vandals, urban sprawl that takes away good bee forage areas, drought, cold weather, and they're allergic to neo-con Republicans, and much more.

Honeybees produce pollen, which is a food supplement, beeswax which has hundreds of uses but mainly in cosmetics and lotions, Honey, bee venom used in treatment of multiple sclerosis, propolis used in medicine, and much more.

Some people refer to dogs as mans best friend,,,but those in the know refer to Honeybees as mankind's best friends!

P. S. I haven't seen a Honeybee yet this spring and I live in a remote area with lots of flowers.

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Answer 16

The honey bee hands down.  WHY?  Because they are the ones who keep people in FOOD, that is why!

I wonder if one reason why they are not paying that much attention is because they know something that they don't want the public to know...like the bees are dying because of the Genetically Modified crops that they are passing off as "Safe"  I would bet money that this has something to do with it...and it all points back to that Monsanto is guilty of it and the FDA helped them do it!

http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com...

Answer 17

In my opinion we need to save the bees.

Not only do they make honey, which I love by the way, but they also are so very important to the pollenization of almost all plants.

Lets look at this, if the Polar Bear dies, we loose an icon, but not something that affects the entire ecosystem.

If we loose the bees, then we can no longer pollenate our plants this mean that we loose our flowering plants, and this can reduce our food supply.

We loose the plants, then the animals that eat the plants, then the animals that eat the animals that eat the plants, THEN WE LOOSE US.

No I am pretty tired so I am not writting this as nicely as I would liek too, however I think you get the point.

Answer 18

Honey bee they do much more for the enviroment! Have you seen the bee movie? Something like that may happpen if they disappear. Polar bears just keep other animal populations down....but killer whales and some seals do the same.

Answer 19

Hmmm.   It seems there are not many people here aware that the bees are mysteriously disappearing in America.

I didn't have sources closed by so did a quick search.  This one is probably a good place to start reading.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/scienc...

Saving the bees should be an immediate priority TO PRESERVE OUR ABILITY TO GROWN OUR OWN FOOD!!!!!!!!

Answer 20

The honeybees, definitely.  Well they are the most important for our human survival, anyways.  Some people may think it's the polar bear that is most important, because they're cuter.. :)  

But well, it's the honeybee.  The honeybee is what actually polinates our crops every year.  And without them well we won't have veggies.  Right?  So they are extremely important.  And it's said to be some mystery as to why they're disappearing... I believe it is a result of the chemtrails that are being sprayed out all over the US and other countries.  

There's plenty of proof out there that chemtrails are REAL and they are harming us and the wildlife as well.   Just look up and you're likely to see a plane overhead spraying where you live.  It starts out like a normal contrail, but instead of quickly dissipating as a contrail would do they linger for hours in the air.  Slowly spreading out forming "clouds".  If there is more than one, and often times there are.. they will white out the entire sky.

There has been lab tests performed on the rain after the chemtrails are observed and there's usually a lot of heavy metals in the samples.  Metals like Barium and Aluminum that over the longterm cause significant health problems to people in these high doses.   Many times effecting the respiratory and nervous systems of people.  They're the most dangerous to the very young, very old and already ill.  

http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/report.s...

They're not sprayed in every country.  I have a friend in China who I showed a website that had pics of these chemtrails.. I see them 2 or 3x a week where I live and he said that he has never seen those before.  He said that the ones he sees are much smaller and disappear quickly.

Answer 21

Bees are not endangered. But they are more important than polar bears for the ecosystem because they pollinate so many kinds of plants, especially food crops we eat.

Answer 22

honey bees , i believe it has to do with the chemtrails and incectisides , the chem trails  contain high levels of metals , mainly barium ,  i know these metals are unsafe for us , i imagine for a bee would cause their extiction .

Answer 23

No one likes to address the idea that maybe animals on the "endangered" species list have simply run their course.

Dino's came and went WITHOUT humans, mammoths, dire wolves, giant sloths, etc. All had their run and now they're gone. Why is it so hard to except that the same thing can be true of today's animal population.

If people put as much effort into saving abused children as they do animals the world would be a much better place.