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The Peregrine Chick:
Some Hudson Bay polar bears nearing starvation due to climate change: experts
by the Canadian Press / 10 January 2011
WINNIPEG - Experts say the slow formation of winter ice on Hudson Bay this year has pushed some polar bears to the brink of starvation.
The bears weren't able to get onto the ice to hunt until late November this year and some had to resort to eating from old garbage dumps around Churchill, Man.
David Barber, one of the world's top Arctic researchers, says polar bears have lost six weeks of hunting time on the ice due to climate change.
He says the bay often doesn't freeze up until early December and thaws early in the spring.
Polar bears depend on winter hunting to build up enough fat to carry them through the lean summer months on land.
Peter Ewins with the World Wildlife Fund says he saw starving polar bears during a visit in mid-November, signalling the population is in deep trouble.
Full article & photo: Some Hudson Bay polar bears nearing starvation due to climate change: xxperts
Kinderchick:
Amur Tigers / Assiniboine Park Zoo
They are truely magnificent cats. 8) Let's hope that they can be brought back from the brink of extinction.
Saoirse:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on October 07, 2011, 20:47 ---Amur Tigers / Assiniboine Park Zoo
The other thing that is hard to believe is that there are estimated to be only 500 left in the wild :'(
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At least there is some possibility of encouragement -- a relatively large number of the tigers living in captivity (over 4,000, I think?) and some recent investigations into the idea of re-stocking the wild population. I know there hasn't been any success to date, but at least the attempts have begun. I know it's optimistic to think there might be some reversal of the declining numbers in our lifetimes, but I'd like to think we might live to see it.
susha:
Amur Tigers / Assiniboine Park Zoo
A sad and tragic reflection of how humans have (so far) managed the planet. :P
allikat:
Amur Tigers / Assiniboine Park Zoo
Yes, only 500 in the wild, and those numbers will drop, unfortunately!
We now have to rely on captive numbers to see how this species will fair.
A monarch can now only be safe, so to speak, in a cage, in captivity.
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