Polar Bear with Cub

[Photographer: Scott Schliebe/USFWS] For more polar bear pictures and if you care for polar bears visit Scott Schliebe’s website

Here is from his website:

The polar bear is at risk of extinction as global warming melts away its Arctic sea-ice habitat. Now it’s getting a second chance: polar bears may get protection under the Endangered Species Act. But the decision is not final.
On February 16, 2005 — the same day the Kyoto Protocol entered into force without the participation of the United States — the Center for Biological Diversity filed a scientific petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Polar bears are at risk of extinction because global warming is causing catastrophic environmental change in the Arctic, including the rapid melting of sea ice. Because the bears are deeply dependent on the sea ice for their survival, they stand to become the first mammals in the world to lose 100 percent of their habitat to global warming.

So please visit his website if you care for the polar bears Scott Schliebe’s website