Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
About 20,000-25,000 polar bears live around North Pol in the Arctic and suffer from melting ice sheets. They have to swim far more to reach a summer habitat needed to find seals and places to raise their young.
Assuming no summer ice sheets in a few decades, polar bears will only survive in zoos. Latest researches find that now the bears have less children, are thinner and population shrinks.
Though the announcement is just a proposal and some more steps are needed to get the bears actually on the list, the US administration confirms there is Global Warming and sees at least some consequences. When will the government tackle causes?
Photo Credit: Steve Armstrup, USFWS - press release
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