To save the polar bears.......?

Question

why don't we just move them and the rest of their food chain to the south pole (Antarctica)?

Answer 1

no

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Answer 2

thats why some are being taken care of by humans... cuz they are becoming endangered...  but i dont think moving them from their environment would help...

Answer 3

There is a project to move Polar Bears to Antarctica. Personally, though it might increase the Polar Bear population, I think it will cause problems. Non-native animals tend to cause problems in the ecosystem they are released into.

I like the response i got to my question "Polar Bears in Antarctica?!?!?! Is this a good Idea?"

blakeary, "I don’t think so. You’re likely to interrupt the balance of nature in that area. It’s been done many times before. Even if the scientists think they have everything worked out it’s impossible to tell with nature. Next thing you’ll know is the polar bears have some type of bacteria in the hair that’s fatal to penguins. That’s only a lame example but there are so many possibilities that can’t be known ahead of time when introducing a new animal to a new environment."

http://www.polarbearconservancy.org/Site...

Antarctic Polar Bear Relocation

The Polar Bear Conservancy's plan is to relocate 3,000 polar bears from the Northern Arctic, where global climate change is melting native habitat, to the stable ice sheets of Antarctica.

The Polar Bear Conservancy will begin relocation of the first Arctic polar bears to Antarctica on Earth Day, April 22, 2008. The relocation will be the initial step in a planned five-year program to migrate 3,000 polar bears from the Northern Arctic to the southern continent of Antarctica.

Scientists say polar bears face near-certain extinction by 2020 as global climate change accelerates melting of their habitat in the Northern Arctic. Antarctica, in contrast, can be a viable home for the bears. Though experiencing melting of its own, the southernmost continent still has sufficient ice coverage to support the polar bear indefinitely in its traditional climate, and it has abundant food stocks, including penguins, seals, dolphins, and migratory whales.

The program is expected to cost $30 million U.S., or approximately $10,000 U.S. per polar bear. The Polar Bear Conservancy has raised the first $15 million from corporate donors and is seeking additional funding through industry and government partnerships.

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Apparently the Antarctic Polar Bear Relocation was an April Fool's joke.

http://gristmill.grist.org/print/2008/3/...

http://blog.newscloud.com/newscloud/inde...

Answer 4

Save them from what?

Answer 5

would that make them bi-polar

oh, iam not going to get the points, iam like a fish with no insides..... gutted!

Answer 6

I live in Alaska and have actually worked around polar bears.  Allot.

The polar bears do not need saving.  Who told you that?

Back when the Alaskan pipeline was built there were 5,000 polar bears and 600,000 caribou in the area.  Today, 31 years later we have 25,000 polar bears and 2,000,000 caribou in the same area.  

That is a 5 fold increase in the polar bear population.  They don't need help.  They are doing fine.

And if all the ice melted they would probably stay on the land.  Polar bears are a subspeices of brown bears - that adapted to the living on the ice and feed off of seals.  Assuming the earth warms up like everyone says - they will migrate to the land and begin to live off caribou probably.

Right now - on the news - we have people being ignored and dying in hospital emergency rooms.   The government can't even wheel a woman down a hall to see a doc - how do you move 25,000 polar bears to the other side of a planet?

Polar bears and penguins are two species that have never met.  I would imagine the introduction of polar bears to the South Pole would decimate the penguins - they would all be dead in a 3-4 years.  Seals are quick and stay near the safety of the water - and polar bears have problems making snacks from them.  Penguins breed out of water and are slow and aquward on land - easy pickin's for a bear.

Polar bears are an Apex Predator.  They fear nothing - even man.  They do not eat Klondike bars or drink coke - they will gladly eat people.........if I dropped you ten miles from a hungry polar bear  - or 200 feet from a hungry lion or great white shark - your chances of escape are better with the lion and shark.  That polar bear will smell you and track you down no trouble at all and it would have you in less than 6 hours.  And if it is a sow with older cubs - she will let the cubs kill you for practice.  Polar bears are the absolute top predator and the last species you want to tangle with on equal terms.

Hope this helps

Answer 7

Shave them and move them to the jungle.

Answer 8

Its a different environment. Also they would kill the penguins

Answer 9

Why not Barbados?

http://www.humordrive.com/cartoon-sample...

Party on dude

http://www.funpic.hu/en.picview.php?id=3...

Seriously the Antarctic is a very different place.  It is a lot colder and the ice tends to be a lot thicker.  Polar Bears will be happy enough in Alaska, Canada and Siberia during summer. They are extremely closely related to grizzlies and are known to share the same territories.  They have even been cases of interbreeding.

I'm not saying they loss of the Polar Ice Cap won't be a problem, but their are other more sinister things going on. For example polution and rising temperatures are causing jellyfish to swarm in rapidly increasing numbers, all around the world.  These are lethal to everything in the ocean and we have no defence against them.  The poles will be the safest place, but they won't be immune if the situation doesn't improve.

http://www.pinktentacle.com/images/echiz...

Here's a cool picture of a polar bear hanging onto his piece of ice until it finally melts away.

http://www.ecozine.co.uk/news6.htm

Answer 10

lol you are an idiot.

Answer 11

Unfortunately Y!A is full of people posting idiotic questions and moronic answers, I share your despair !

If only such an undertaking was as straight forward to implement as it is to conceive.

First of all the Polar population is spread amongst several nations, some of which are b(ea)rly (!) on speaking terms never mind working together on such a philanthropic task !

Then you have the sheer cost and logistical nightmare of moving an entire Polar population literally to the other side of the earth. Even if you somehow managed to provide a seal population as prey (good luck) how long might it take for both populations to settle into their new environment and start forming routine, hunting and feeding habits ? Probably long enough for 3/4 of each population to perish. Such a solution sounds feasible, in practice it is anything but... And don't forget, the south pole is melting also....

I love Polar bears myself and I wish they can survive the current crisis they face, although the way things are going I do not hold much hope...

Bouncer bobtail's web link to that polar bear atop the small piece of ice is both dramatic and bitter sweet. Tragically, the adage 'a picture paints a thousand words' is is very sobering in this photo... The title reads 'A climate of doubt''http://www.ecozine.co.uk/news6.htm