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Urge Canada to add the Polar Bear to its Species at Risk List.
The Polar Bear Needs Us: Global Warming is reducing the amount of pack ice in the Arctic, which the polar bear depends on for survival.
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Dear Minister Kent:
I am deeply concerned about climate change in the Arctic and the threat this poses to the polar bear.
Global warming is melting the polar ice caps, robbing the bears of the ice floes they need to hunt prey. As the annual sea ice melts, polar bears are forced ashore to spend their summers fasting.
If the Arctic ice cap continues to melt sooner and form later, polar bears will become too thin to reproduce and many scientists predict they will become extinct by the end of this century.
The United States has already decided to list the polar bear as "threatened" under its Endangered Species Act.
Meanwhile, in Canada, the polar bear is not yet listed under Canada’s Species At Risk Act (SARA), despite the fact that more than half of the world’s polar bears are found in Canada, and despite the fact that the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada has called polar bears a species "of special concern" in Canada since 1991.
I call on the Government of Canada to swiftly acknowledge the fragile state of polar bear populations and to add the polar bear to Canada’s Species at Risk List.
Thank you for considering my views.
Polar Bear Facts:
- Common Name: Polar Bear
- Latin Name: Ursus Maritimus
- Status: Special Concern (according to the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada)
- Size: Males are typically between 2 and 3 m long and weigh up to 500 kg, though a few weigh as much as 800 kg. Females weigh between 150 to 250 kg.
- Population: 22,000 to 27,000
- Life Span: 20 to 25 years
- Range: Most polar bears live in Canada, but other populations exist in Alaska, Russia, Greenland and Norway.
- Threats: climate change, air pollution, oil spills, toxic chemicals.
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