Survival of Polar Bears
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010In people’s mind, all parts of polar bears are priceless. At present, a polar bear skin can be sold up to some thousand dollars and people use it to produce carpet as luxurious decoration. In arctic area, polar bear skin is considered as daily object and it is also used as tribute to the king and queen in Norway. The meat of polar bear is very fresh and delicious but its liver is toxic because of excessive Vitamin A. In addition, polar bear is very popular in circus, especially small bears. In such case, polar bear hunting never stops. Polar bear can be killed just by guns. Inuit people can kill polar bears easily by dogs and firearms. Arctic National Conservation Area has set some laws to protect polar bear and every Inuit person can kill a polar bear every year if no excessive hunting occurs. However, some commercial hunting activities for polar bears have brought bad consequences. According to some report from media in Europe, about 10 companies in Europe have offered polar bear hunting groups charging 20000 pounds and they have published the bloody photos for hunting through internet. Among those pictures, injury can be found in some polar bear bodies and it proves that polar bears were killed gradually. Experts estimate that more than 1000 polar bears are killed every year among 22000 to 25000 ones and most hunters are mainly from Canada, USA, and Russia etc. A hunting company in Alaska published their advertisement on internet and said, “Go adventure with us for the largest booty, polar bear”. The company said that they had had enough quotas for polar bear hunting the next year. Hunters from America, European countries and Japan all kill polar bear excessively and US geological experts predict that the quantity of polar bear all over the world will decrease by 2/3 because the ice on which polar bears live are melting in a fast speed.
Besides human unreasonable hunting for polar bears, killing among polar bears also starts. As the global warming occurs, ice on which the bears live is melting so it is very difficult for bears to hunt food. Consequently, they start to get food by killing the species of the same kind. Environmentalists ever took photos for killing among polar bears. A male polar bear managed to separate a small bear and its mother and finally killed and ate the small baby. In addition, the male bear took remains of the dead bear to its home for next dinner. Actually, environmentalists can record more and more killing among polar bears. As for such phenomenon, some people think it is very common and they also think it is nothing to do with global warming. However, we cannot ignore that as the global temperature rises and ice starts to melt, homes of polar bears have been destroyed and they also have lost some preys. In addition, even they are excellent swimmers; they cannot stay in the sea for long time after ice melts. In other words, they have more chance to be drowned to death.
