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Polar Bears have been under threat since modern technology multiplied carbon emissions and made the North Pole accessible to hunters and miners. Dome Petroleum sailed out of Tuktoyuktuk annually through the summer. Their explorations on the West Coat of North America, disturbed the bears, despite the Circumpolar Polar Bear Conservation signed back in the nineteen seventies by all the Polar nations including the then USSR.

Moves were made to compensate the indigenous Inui for disruption from exploration and exploitation. Nothing was put in place for the animals of the North. PCB's have been buried under the arctic shield, ignorant pf potential damage. Uranium waste has also been buried. Although there are plants that can absorb radiation, introducing them to tundra regions will destroy local habitat. The same applies to introducing native grasses that can absorb carbon emissions. Remember it takes sixty years for a tree to absorb one ton of carbon waste. Grass is hoped to be a faster aid to reduce carbon emissions.

The environment is damned if we do and damned if we don't. With it go the Polar Bears and the polar seals. Eight percent of the Polar sea ice collapses each decade and remember that eight percent is exponential. Our next decade will show a vast reduction in the Polar wildlife habitat, both the polar bears and their natural food, the seals.

Does it matter? Yes. As the polar habitat vanishes there are fewer and fewer areas of the world remain fit for human habitation. Temperatures rise and areas of land become areas of salt marsh or ocean. The stabilising nature of the Poles is gone from our planet and the cold rivers running north through the oceans will be warmer, or stagnant.

The destruction of Polar Bear and Polar seal habitat also means further damage to fish stocks as the desperate animals react be searching farther afield for food. In the spring the female Polar bear has gestated and fed her cubs without nutrition to herself.

The South Polar Ice is also beginning to melt. It is not absorbing carbon emissions as scientists hoped. In the interim can we find a place to establish a Polar animal protected zone in the South Pole? It would take a huge global effort. It would also require permanent rangers to supervise the area and prevent the destruction of one species by another. Zoos and wildlife parks are always a source of preservation for threatened species, but nothing supersedes saving this magnificent mammal in its natural habitat.

Saving the Polar bear and their food chain really means reducing global carbon emissions that are causing the Poles to melt. If we save the Poles we save the Polar Bears and more solid areas of southern land mass for ourselves. Quoting from: - Is Canada Ready 'The melting of the northern polar ice cap is the main driver of this [warming] cycle.

Despite the USA refusing to sign the Kyoto Accord; it copies the basic design of offsetting carbon emission within its boundaries, but not to the standard required by its neighbours. Fortunately many philanthropists disagree with their Government. Yahoo is the latest business to put all its muscle behind stopping and reversing global warming in the world's toughest market - New York

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