Polar bears
This one shouldn't surprise you. The polar bear has become the poster animal for the devastating changes global warming is bringing to the Arctic. Polar bears are dying because their range is shrinking; the sea ice they use to hunt seals is melting as temperatures rise. It's estimated that there are 20,000-25,000 polar bears worldwide. Thirty percent of the 19 recognized subpopulations are in decline. (Text: Shea Gunther)
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The Tasmanian devil, the largest surviving carnivorous marsupial, was hunted to extinction on the Australian mainland. Now it could be wiped out in Tasmania too. The big threat is the fatal devil facial-tumour disease. Remarkably, and unlike other malignancies, the tumours in every affected animal carry identical chromosome rearrangements and the tumour seems to be passed on by contact through biting, consistent with transmission by an allografting process. Meanwhile, conservation efforts.... More
that way it will take less tim eto find what we need and then i wont waste any time waiting for the stupid thing to load and all that stuff i mean really come on get with the program!!!
there ice is melting and that leaves them with barly any place to hunt or find food so they try swimming to another place to get food and they ether dround or dont find any food and with ther eice sheets melting they are shrinking in amount bye alot
You know what- if we don't stop being *****, where going to end the world. Yeh, not in 2012, but soon enough, the world will end if people don't start caring about the environment! We're all gonna die, because some *** doesn't care about the environment! I hope u r all happy with your self, you ignorant litterers! I'm not saying everyone's an ***, because SOME people care about the environment! If u care about our Earth and animals good on 'ya!
It's all becoz of us that animals are going extinct! open ur eyes and SEE! It's all coz stupid dush faces keep littering and being idiots! I feel sorry for the animals going extinct! It's all coz of idiots littering, and, frankly, we aren't the ones that are copping the damage it's THEM- the INNOCENT ANIMALS!!!! So stop being idiots and walk an extra 5 steps to the bin!
All these random facts you find on the internet are not making you any smarter, they're eating off your brain while bombarding you with advertisements you will associate with random stimuli. So next time you're in the crapper and hear someone with that new "call me mr. bedrock" song as their ringtone and you feel like shipping something through fedex, don't blame Obama, it was the illuminati.
i ******* hate these "10 things you will have to click 10 times to eventually see" lists
JUST ******* PUT THEM ALL ON THE SAME ******* PAGE
The more pages they put them on, the more ad revenue they collect
The real importance has to be human population control. How will any wild animal survive when the Earth is exploding in people. Consider this: India currently has 1.25 Billion People with a daily population increase of 240,000. They will want products that create pollution. What will there carbon footprint be.??
Polar bears are growing in population.
Angelita...Polar Bears are not growing in population...People are killing these animals for sport in Canada...Canada is the only country that allows this butchering...people and habitat are killing off these beautiful animals...just think when the mother dies her cubs will too...
Global warming is a fact, its our fault. Without the involvment of the human race it would've happened gradually and over 10s of thousands of years, but we just sped it up x100
Yes extinction is a natural element of life, but still, we are talking about forcing into extinction. If we force animals into extinction then we may accidentally disrupt the balance of nature, and then nothing will help. Mankind is trying to survive by any means, that is in our genes, but also in our genes is the ability to think, and make brighter decisions...
Everyone is an expert in Biology. Except creationists, but aside from that, basically everyone... wow.
You're all ignorant morons, 99% of all species that have ever existed have gone extinct. When one dies another will develop to fill its empty niche. Learn2Think
I'm glad someone said it! Do you know how Polar bears came into existance in the first place? Their territory used to be Grizzly bear territory. Over time there was an *OH NOES!* CLIMATE CHANGE! Polar bears evolved from Grizzlies to fit the new climate of the area. Now everyone's flipping their **** because the Earth is doing what it does, changing.
do you really think that the specific niche can be so easily filled by another animal? or will evolution take place in a couple years? that is ridiculous. if that is what you believe, then take a look at our oceans. top predators are in decline and are being replace by other organisms that in no way replicate their exact role in their niche. next type you want to make a ridiculous statement, perhaps realize that you may be the ignorant one.
wow your not that bright
This list only contains the big well known animals, but there are also many more small and very important creatures on the verge of extinction. And although it might look as if the human race is the only one who's doing well, what will be left in the end are the Salmonella's, HIV's and Plasmodiums of this world. Good luck with such neighbours.
Aside from the many obvious and not-so-obvious causes for life to become extinct that are not their fault, it is also completely natural!! More species than we could imagine have appeared and gone extinct in the worlds history. It is natural, it is evolution, it is fact.
I imagine the one good reason to protect a species that is otherwise naturally doomed for extinction (the panda bear, for example) is so future generations can enjoy them. But how much resources are we really putting.... More
polar bears are not dieing naturally it is because of human impact that the temperature of the earth is increasing. this isn't really nature doing what it normally does
This is so horrible, seriously.
Do any of you have kids?I do and i have to see the glass half full, for them.Mankind is the most destructive hateful mean race their is and at the same time the most noble caring and giving too.We share every thing money, time,we even rip out our organs for one another,often.Their is Good things going on every day. Turn off the PC and TV and look around you'll see.Some times forces seem to big to change and they are but the thing is they dont have to.Only you do besides thats the only thing we.... More
Get rid of 90 percent of the humans on this planet and it will heal itself
I can sympathize with Tim. I often feel like there is just no hope, this horror just keeps keeping on. One day I hear that we saved one animal and the next I hear about the deaths of hundreds more. It's insanity and it is beyond my understanding but I promise to fight for them. I will fight until the world winks out for me. That is all I can do... no matter how useless it sometimes seems.
I wish i was Extinct, im sick of this stupid world, its full of greedy ********. i cant take it i want out lol, someone release me please.
The extinction of species will have a ripple effect on the human race. We HAVE TO preserve and protect wildlife!
We must begin to think on a global scale. The world of money exists today like a pyramid. The ones with the money and power sit at the top of the pyramid, and as the pyramid goes lower people have less and less power as the pyramid heads downward along with quality of life.
In the USA its republican against democrat. Conservative against liberal. As long as we remain ignorant to their manipulations through their money, and its funneled down so the true source cannot be found and we.... More
No one should kill the animals as the Congress said it was okay to have a rifle in the Natl Parks & I say it is wrong. My uncle, Al Rubano, worked in the Bronx Zoo & we as children loved the animals. Stop the killings.
Capitalism, Communism, Globalism, Tribalism, every element of mankind are the cause(s), we all know that. But, living in the United States and being one part of the problem myself do KNOW that Capitalism is an IMMENSE NEGATIVE when talking about LIFE on Earth, that even takes we human's into account our OWN future does not look to good if we continue to ALLOW Capitalism, Big Business, and the forces of Consumerism to remain in control of decision making in the U.S. and around the World..... More
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