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Please be nice and save the polar bears on ice Not enough is being done to help the polar bears. Act now to save them so they are still there tomorrow

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Ever since Polar bears where put on the Endangered species list not much has been done to help them. Observers have noticed that every year they get skinnier and don't grow as large. Polar Bears are important to the Arctic habitat and ours too. Carnivores, such as Polar Bears are sensitive indicators of how the ecosystem is doing. In simpler words if the Polar Bears are doing well than neither is any other animal in the Arctic habitat. They are also important to the culture of the people of the Arctic. They respect and value these animals. Since they are at risk so is their entire ecosystem and some important culture.======

This includes trophy hunting. 700 of these amazing animals are killed every day. In some countries poaching is illegal. But not in the United States and Canada. Natives can Poach legally with a license because of their culture that goes back before anyone can remember. These licenses are often sold for large sums of money or forged though making it easier for just anyone to hunt in those countries. Poaching is another reason that polar bears are slowly going down the road of extinction. There needs to be stricter laws on Poaching so it happens less or not at all.
 * The Polar Bear population is poached for **

Sea ice levels have melted 40 percent above average. That is 1.65 million miles of ice melted, and its not coming back anytime soon. You may it snows a lot in the Arctic but it doesn't its just that its so cold that the little precipitation it gets stays there. There are only 20,000 polar bears left in the world. Compared to the 7 billion people on earth that is not much.
 * The Arctic habitat is constantly shrinking and so their population **

70 percent have died before the time they turn three. Many cubs face malnutrition because of the shortened time they can hunt because now summer comes earlier. Parents are often forced to eat their cubs when there is no food available. 73 percent of pregnant females fail to bring their cubs to the world. Without the Polar Bear cubs there will be no next generation.
 * The next generation of Polar Bears isn't doing so well **

Some zoos go to the extent of killing them when they do not bring crowds anymore. The average zoo enclosure is one millionth the size of its natural habitat in the wild. Many Polar Bears become extremely depressed in Zoos and some put these bears on Prozac to try and regain the bears normal actions
 * They are not doing well in the wild and its not better at all in zoos **