Everyone knows that global warming is affecting polar bears, but do you know why polar bears are actully being affected? This article will look into the reason of this sad event.
The main threat to the polar bears is the reduction of sea ice, the polar bears habitat, all due to global warming. The polar bear, or put more scientifically the ursus martimus is in fact a marine mammal as most of its life, spent hunting is at sea not land. So obviously, with global warming destroying the arctic ice, it’s taking the polar bears habitat too!
So global warming is decreasing the population of polar bears, due to the loss of ice platforms meaning it’s further for the, marine mammals to swim in tougher conditions. On top of all this, hunting opportunities are lower, and with limited food to hunt.
It is perdicted that around two thirds of polar bears will dissapear by the year 2050!