Polar bears in peril

As the climate gets warmer, the ice sheets that polar bears depend on are shrinking, causing polar bears to have to swim farther to find food. Cubs are starving to death, and adult polar bears have drowned because they could not reach the retreating ice that they depend on. In 2006 the IUCN listed the polar bear as vulnerable.

Look here and here to learn more about the polar bears' plight, and to find out how to take action to help protect the polar bear and its habitat. Click here to send a message to the US Fish and Wildlife Service supporting their proposal for increased protections for polar bears. Click here to urge your senators and representative to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the most important on-shore denning habitat for polar bears (and an important place for a lot of other wildlife).