56 Un-Bear-Ably Cute Momma Bears Teaching Their Teddy Bears How To Bear

'I think they would prefer the zoo. (...) I don't like them being in zoos but I would prefer my children growing up knowing and seeing healthy happy polar bears then showing them a picture' This is wrong on so many levels I don't even know where to start. Children do not have the right to see any live animal just because they are kids. Nature is not there to be entertainment to our kids (or to us) and sometimes videos will just have to be enough. Polar bears will be extinct in our live time due to global warming and they won't be the only species that we'll miss dearly. It is heart breaking but since we are speeding up the process with our livestyles we only have ourselves to blame. Zoos are not a solution to this problem, they are just a symptom on a society with skewed morals and values, where it is 'fun' to look at caged animals and then have some tortured pig for dinner afterwards.

I agree with you-the zoos are heloing save them from extinction. Just wanted to clarify whether you meant global warming. Their environment changes aren't natural, they're man-made:

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Again, their population us up 5x times from the 1960's... how is that considered a problem??

Icebergs melting global warming toxic water cross breeding with grizzly bears ya there fine.. there population is up... for now..

Part 2: We do know (and I have published papers on this) that some polar bear populations grew after quotas were imposed in Canada, aerial hunting ceased in Alaska, and trapping and hunting were banned in Svalbard. All of these events occurred in the late 60s or early 70s, and we know some populations responded—as you would expect. Some populations were not being hunted back then (or were hunted very little) and those were probably unaffected by these three actions. Back then, the sea ice was solid and not noticeably in retreat. With stable habitat, polar bears were a renewable resource that could be harvested on a sustainable basis. But the most important point is that whatever happened in the past is really irrelevant. Polar bear habitat is disappearing due to global warming. Even the most careful on-the-ground management doesn't matter if polar bears don't have the required habitat. Your move.

This is why it is important to do your own research, and do it well. As well as think things through logically, rather than use statistics out of context. Answered by Dr. Steven C. Amstrup, chief scientist with Polar Bears International and USGS polar bear project leader for 30 years: (Link at the end) A: One of the most frequent myths we hear about polar bears is that their numbers are increasing and have, in fact, more than doubled over the past thirty years. Tales about how many polar bears there used to be (with claims as low as 5,000 in the 1960s) are undocumented, but cited over and over again. Yet no one I know can come up with a legitimate source for these numbers.* We do know (and I have published papers on this) that some polar bear populations grew after quotas were imposed in Canada, aerial hunting ceased in Alaska, and trapping and hunting als http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/about-polar-bears/what-scientists-say/are-polar-bear-populations-booming