What can my family and I do to help save the Polar Bears?

Question

I really love Polar bears, and I've heard that they have been put on the endangered species list. I know it's because of global warming, and they're habitat and food is dying. How can I help save them?

What can my family do to help save them? I really care about this so please only serious answers.

What are some other ways that we can help the enviorment?

Answer 1

If you have a local zoo with (a) polar bear(s), you could visit, and your entrance money would help to feed and maintain the bear(s).  Otherwise, you could ask the zoo to get at least one.

Answer 2

you know that it is happening because of global warming, then why dont you try and stop it?

i really love polar bears too. i know these steps are a bit hard, but if you want to save polar bears and your whole nation, tell your family and friends to take these steps:

1. switch off the electric devices when not in use and dont forget to switch off the main switches.

2. you and your family can decide having one hour daily without use of any electric appliances. they can only work with inverters at that time. pllease do not use generators.

3. if you go to school, or someone else in your family or friend goes to school, ask them to use bicycles. they do not release gases which are harmful to the environment.

4. come on and lets have some fun!!! call your friends on a picnic and try and plant trees i your garden.

5. dont dry your clothes with driers. hang them in the balcony or backyard.

if you really dont wanna see the vast ocean and that dying polar bear in it, follow the steps, please.

p.s. i am following all of them, but sadly my family isn't.

Answer 3

move north and hand feed the bears your leftovers

Answer 4

Polar bears are not endangered.  Their population is up 500% over the last forty years.  They won't be adverseley affected by global warming.  A warmer arctic will support more life and they will benefit.  

There are plenty of envirenmental issues worthy of your attention and concern.  Neither global warming, nor polar bears are worth worrying about.

Answer 5

it's a hoax, the whole global warming thing is a hoax...The numbers of polar bears are so high now that they are thinking of removing them from the list...Relax, there are more pressing issues in your lives to worry about and to participate in a cause for...

Answer 6

There are a lot more polar bears in the Arctic then there used to be!

They are not really endangered because there are tons of them .

Answer 7

There are lots of ways to help, and you ask a good question.  

(1) First, do your research and you'll understand why some of these "global climate change deniers" are being very short-sighted and spreading partial truths and misinformation.  

Environmentalists and conservationists have helped restore food supplies to the bears in the short run by opposing the hunting of baby seals.  But in the long run, the melting sea ice from global warming in the arctic--if we don't stop it--will ruin their biological cycle and habitat.

See this portion of the L.A. Times story when the US EPA --run by an anti-environmentalist named Dirk Kempthorne--admitted that the science is clear that the bears are "threatened" and took first steps towards protection, even though he would rather do nothing and defer to big polluting industry.

"In September, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey released a nine-volume analysis of how a warming Arctic is affecting sea ice and reached a dire forecast: Two-thirds of the polar bear's habitat would disappear by 2050.

Polar bears are experts at hunting ringed seals and other prey from sea ice. But they are so unsuccessful on land that they spend their summers fasting, losing more than 2 pounds a day.

This forced fast is now about three weeks longer than it was 30 years ago, according to studies in Canada's western Hudson Bay. This gives the bears less time to hunt and build up the fat reserves they need to survive until ice re-forms in the fall and they can resume hunting."

As bears have become thinner, the reproductive rates of females and survival rates of cubs have declined. Overall, the western Hudson Bay population has dropped by 22% since 1987, according to studies.

These bears in Hudson Bay are among the best studied. Scientists don't know if similar trends exist elsewhere in the Arctic, a vast and forbidding place to conduct field studies. Surveys have shown other problems, including bears drowning in open waters and cannibalism among hungry bears.

Scientists think the global population of 20,000 to 25,000 bears remains robust, rebounding from the 1960s, when hunting had driven down the population to about 12,000. But virtually all polar bear experts predict rapid population declines in the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere else in the world and changing too rapidly for the bears to adapt and find other food sources."

(2) What can you do?   You can join a group that is raising awareness of climate threats and fighting for legislation to create real solutions.  I recommend Friends of the Earth (foe.org), Greenpeace.org, or Defenders of Wildlife (defenders.org).    

You can also take a trip with your family to visit the bears in October in Manitoba and bring back photos and more information to raise awareness in your community, before the bears are gone.  Check out Native Habitats an eco-tour operator (NatHab.com).   Be sure to offset the carbon from your travel with TerraPass.com or the ConservationFund.org.

You also can try in your home to purchase with your family things that will save energy and cut climate impact.  Check out greenhome.huddler.com or greenyour.com for tips and advice on reducing your carbon footprint while also making your home safer from carcinogenic toxins and other dangers.

Lastly, please be aware that it's true that some critics will say that a few polar bears will survive in zoos or scrounging for food scraps in northern canadian towns, but the dignity and glory of this magnificent creature was never meant to be reduced to a large trash-diving possum, and you can bet these same pollution lovers won't like bears in their backyards!

Good luck!