| Many organization and many individuals have been in | | | | weeks surely going to have significant effect. |
| the forefront of many battles won and lost in the | | | | The impact of the melting ice on polar bear become |
| history. But not in our so called illustrious history an | | | | more severe in coming years. Earlier melting of spring |
| animal has been in the forefront of a struggle. A | | | | ice and the later formation of autumn ice has an |
| struggle in which it is unknowingly dragged into, A | | | | immediate impact on their ability to feed. In some |
| struggle that will define its existence. The photo | | | | areas there is evidence that sea ice breaks up three |
| provided below taken by Dan Crosbie have sent | | | | weeks earlier than it did 30 years ago.More young |
| cripples all over the world. | | | | cubs are found dead each year; adults have lost |
| The picture looks like a Mother and cub resting in the | | | | weight, from an average of 650lb in 1980 to 507lb in |
| top of a ice sculpture done by waves have sent | | | | 2004; there have been instances of cannibalism; and |
| ripples all over the world. Let me remind you that | | | | in western Hudson Bay the polar bear population |
| Polar Bear are extremely decent swimmers. But yet | | | | decreased from 1,200 in the mid-Nineties to less than |
| they may be in sight of being endangered. What | | | | 1,000 in 2004. There are thought to be between |
| makes them so attractive is the their cute and | | | | 20,000 and 25,000 polar bears in the world, and all |
| innocent face, which make them so lovable | | | | but one member of the PBSG(Polar Bear Specialist |
| compared to their bear brothers. | | | | Group) believe global warming poses a critical threat |
| Anything that is cute and innocent we humans have | | | | to their long-term survival. The exception, quoted by |
| more affection to it. The traditional threats to the | | | | contrarian writers, is Dr Mitchell Taylor from the |
| polar bear - hunting, toxic waste, offshore drilling - | | | | Government of Nunavut, who remains sceptical |
| have been overshadowed by a new one: the ice | | | | about the climate modelling projections and their |
| around them is melting, and we are to blame.At the | | | | impact. 'I'm not sure I understand his logic,' Stirling |
| end of December, the US Secretary of the Interior | | | | says. 'However, at the last meeting of the IUCN |
| revealed the US Fish and Wildlife Service was | | | | PBSG in Seattle in June 2005 the group [including Dr |
| considering adding the polar bear to its list of | | | | Taylor] unanimously agreed to classify the polar bear |
| threatened species.This is a more significant addition | | | | as vulnerable.' |
| to the at-risk list than a rare gazelle or panther: it is | | | | If we don't add quickly these cute and innocent |
| an admission, after years of denial, of the existence | | | | looking creature will become a thing of past. These |
| of global warming. Every country in this world is | | | | big creatures who was adopted by Coca Cola to |
| coming to a point where they have to admit the | | | | spearhead their Cola campaign will become a very |
| existence of Global Warming and take necessary | | | | distant memory.The Cola Bear reinforced the notion |
| steps to reverse it. Otherwise may be in the far | | | | that Coke was best served ice-cold, and it was a |
| future we will have ourselves being listed in the | | | | drink that spread the love: the bears, who made |
| endangered species. Some days before I was | | | | deep and reassuring guttural noises and never had |
| watching the construction of the famous Ice Hotel in | | | | seal blood on their fur, were represented in family |
| the National Geographic Channel. | | | | groups playing with penguins and admiring the Aurora |
| Usually the construction of the Hotel will begin in | | | | Borealis. There was no cuter or more deceptively |
| beginning of November and end by end of | | | | cuddly anthropomorphism on the tundra - the little |
| December. Not the last time, it started after a delay | | | | ones even wore red scarves - and merchandise |
| of 3 weeks - because the outside climate was too | | | | followed; keyrings, soft toys, pencil toppers, now |
| warm for the construction of Hotel. The construction | | | | quite big on eBay. The only downside for the polar |
| of Ice Hotel should not have any significance in | | | | bears was they didn't own their image rights. |
| common man's life but the shifting of the winter by 3 | | | | |