By: Jennifer Harrison. Polar bears live in the northern hemisphere. The circumpolar U.S. waters of...
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By: Jennifer Harrison. Polar bears live in the northern hemisphere. The circumpolar U.S. waters of arctic ocean off Alaska, north of arctic Islands Arctic
Polar bears live in the northern hemisphere. The circumpolar
U.S. waters of arctic ocean off Alaska, north of arctic Islands
Arctic South to the Hudson's bay. and off the coasts of Greenland,
Norway, and Russia. WHERE DO THEY LIVE?
Slide 3
The females are pregnant for 4 months and often double their
body weight during gestation. Polar bears mate in April and May.
The mother bear gives birth in December or January. A female will
only produce 5 liters in their life time which is unusually slow
reproductive rate. They usually have 2 cubs. the cubs are born
blind and hairless. they are the size of a full grown squirrel.
weighing only 2 lbs. They stay with the mother for 2 1/2 years. THE
REPRODUCTION OF POLAR BEARS
Slide 4
Polar bears eat Ringed seals and bearded seals. Primarily
walruses, they usually only eat the skin and the blubber of the
prey. they leave the meat for other predators. WHAT DO THEY
EAT?
Slide 5
The world is one of the threats for the polar bears. The other
is Human trophy hunters. THREATS
Slide 6
The U.S. has banned all importing of polar bear trophies. They
made it illegal to trade in endangered species and ban all trade in
polar bear fur and body parts throughout the world. Along the
coastlines of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas where polar bears are
known to den and bear their young. WHAT IS BEING DONE TO SOLVE THE
PROBLEM?
Slide 7
Over the summer I would have a lemonade stand and have pictures
of polar bears. After the week is over I would get all the money
and send it to the IUCN and tell them to spend it for the polar
bear protection. WHAT WOULD I DO IF I COULD HELP?
Slide 8
The IUCN states the polar bear is vulnerable. The melting ice
caps and sea levels rising causing global warming's is the biggest
threat to them. Because of the temperatures rising the season of
seal hunting for the polar bears has shortened. Which causing many
bears to die from starvation. Although global worming is an enemy
to the bears legal and illegal hunting is a threat. Trophy hunters
kill over 500 polar bears in a year in Canada. Air, water
pollution, by oil and gas drilling in the ice also threaten. If the
polar bears fur is covered in oil from a spill there is no way of
cleaning it out!! WHAT DOES THE IUCN SAY ABOUT POLAR BEARS?
