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Polar bear faces risk, not extinction

Polar bear faces risk, not extinction says Canadian advisory panel as reported by The Age.

THE polar bear, a symbol of Canada's far north and of the effects of climate change on the Arctic, is in trouble but not endangered, a Canadian advisory panel says.

The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada gave the polar bear its weakest classification, that of "special concern", but said the Canadian Government would nonetheless have to develop a management plan to protect the animals if it agreed with the new label.

Jeffrey Hutchings, chairman of the independent committee, said there was insufficient reason to think the polar bear was at imminent risk of extinction, but "that's not to say that it's not in trouble", with a need for legislative action if the Government included it on the legal list.

Canada has an estimated 15,500 polar bears, roughly two-thirds of the global population. Disappearing summer sea ice is causing a decline in numbers in some areas, but in others they are stable or rising.

Environment Minister John Baird said Ottawa should take action before the animal got a "threatened" designation, which would require bans on hunting and on destruction of habitat. Canada's Arctic Inuit people say restricted hunting should continue.

REUTERS

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But with the image just above becoming common it is very easy to spot out that they are in real trouble.

Though this may the case, Polar bears are really in trouble. They are the one of the first species of animals suffering from what the human race done to the planet. It is well known fact that due to the increase in pollution in atmosphere the earth is heating up. Due to this effect the ice masses in whole of the planet is melting down. Slowly polar bears are losing their homes.

It is not very far that they are going to be extinct.

The new generations of bears have to face the music, the cause which they are unaware.

WE SHOULD NOT BE CRUEL to any species in this kind. THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU ARE INCREASING YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT.

SAVE THE ANIMALS, SAVE THE HUMAN RACE, SAVE THE PLANET.

SHOW THEM MERCY, AFTER ALL IT'S ALSO THEIR PLANET...