• Question: will the polar bears die

    Asked by jack to Aileen, Caroline, Christopher, Rehemat, Stephanie, Stephen on 7 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Christopher Nankervis

      Christopher Nankervis answered on 7 Mar 2018:

      Polar bears are becoming more endangered, and in the next few decades may live only in the zoo.

    • Photo: Stephanie Mann

      Stephanie Mann answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      Have you seen the new david attenborough documentary on hybrid animals on iplayer? He talked about polar bears… because of the arctic melting, many grizzly bears are moving more north and breeding with polar bears to make hybrid bears. He said he thinks polar bears WILL die out very soon, but luckily some of their offspring will live as pizzly bears!

    • Photo: Stephen Twomlow

      Stephen Twomlow answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      Unfortunately your children may only see polar bears in wild when viewing old natural history documentaries – or visiting the zoo

    • Photo: Rehemat Bhatia

      Rehemat Bhatia answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      Polar bears rely on sea ice and seals (for food) to survive. No sea ice means no seals, and no seals means no food for polar bears 🙁

      As Stephanie mentioned, they might start to inter-breed with grizzly bears, if polar bears move south (if they lose their habitat in the arctic) and meet grizzly bears in northern Canada.

    • Photo: Aileen Baird

      Aileen Baird answered on 9 Mar 2018:

      Yes, polar bears are becoming an “at-risk” species (they are at risk of dying out or becoming extinct) because global warming is causing their habitat to disappear.

    • Photo: Caroline Hickman

      Caroline Hickman answered on 12 Mar 2018:

      Yes, I’m afraid the bears in the wild will struggle to survive. A few will adapt and change, but the life they live now will not be possible, so most of them will not survive. We already lost the first mammal through human induced climate change, the Bramble Cay Melomy, a small mammal that has now been declared extinct. The Polar Bears are large mammals that we notice a lot, but some of the smaller ones are already dying out.

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