Scientists believe that climate change could cause polar bears to go extinct by the end of the century due to climate change. Sadly, some leaders have made plans to exacerbate the diminishing polar bear population, rather than trying ot save them.
Trump’s presidency has been full of rollbacks that severely weaken environmental and wildlife protections. This includes weakening the nation’s most essential environmental law, NEPA, as well as opening up 20 million acres of national preserve lands in Alaska for trophy hunting.
Trump also opened up the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling, even though its the most important nursery ground for Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears. Climate change leaves fewer and fewer areas suitable for nursing. Now Trump wants to start drilling in one of the few areas left where these polar bears can nurse. Because methods at detecting polar bears are often ineffective and inaccurate, these poor bears are at risk of being buried alive in their dens.
Fortunately, Rep Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) introduced the Polar Bear Cub Survival Act to protect these precious bears. This act would “prohibit oil and gas activities within one mile of polar bear maternal den habitat, and for other purposes.”
Sign this petition to support the Polar Bear Cub Survival Act and urge your elected officials to do the same!
To continue speaking up, sign these other petitions as well:
- Ban Polar Bear Trophy Hunting
- Halt Environmental Rollbacks to Save Polar Bears from Extinction
- Urge the U.S. Government to Protect the Arctic!
- End drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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trophy huntings should be banned right now, so we can protect these beautiful white beasts. We are dedicated to build a comprehensive range of Polar bear breeding centers all around the world, to allow the Polar bears to produce more and more cubs, to get their population increasing again, away from the brink of extinction. The Polar bear breeding centers would need very large enclosures so the Polar bears can stretch and walk around, but the enclosures would need some a few trees, grassland for them to slide down, a big lake for them to swim and some cave shelters for them to rest in the shade.
No! Please don’t put on a trophy hunting on Polar bears, it is very cruel and to do that, and Polar bears are classified as an endangered species due to the climate change and oil drilling. To that, Polar bears are facing extinction by 2100 and humans should stop doing anymore trophy huntings and oil drillings, it causes more threat to these beautiful white beasts and which result in their population to decline.