Willow-girl t1_j1qzfwd wrote
Hold on a sec. Are the bears dying, or just going somewhere else?
BetterLivingThru t1_j1r6a8e wrote
Mostly they're starving to death, you see alot of photos of them emaciated up around Churchill. There are usually already bear populations present in the regions that can still better support polar bears, the bears hang around in their regions during the summer and wait for the sea ice where they can hunt seals, and burn their fat reserves in order to live. They don't naturally migrate giant distances like caribou, they keep still and try to conserve energy.
[deleted] t1_j1tjga4 wrote
where will they go?
Willow-girl t1_j1u1w6r wrote
I don't know. But the article alludes to the possibility:
>And while it's possible some bears may have moved,
CarBombtheDestroyer t1_j1tqhku wrote
I read not long ago that the polar bear populations were growing in Canada as a whole. Declining on the global scale tho.
Willow-girl t1_j1u1g4j wrote
That data is nearly a decade old and stems from the fur industry, which has an interest in hunting bears.
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