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Will polar bears survive the threat of melting ice?

Will polar bears make the leap into the next century? Recent studies the project unless the sea ice in the Arctic continues to disappear, it goes the polar bear in a large part of its current range.

Polar bears have a low reproductive rate. To feed themselves and their young, they rely on sea ice for platforms to hunt for their main source of food: seals.

In September 2006, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic reached a record level. That record was broken in September 2007, when an area of approximately the combined size of Texas and California was found to have melted. The magenta line indicates the average size in September data from 1979 to 2007.

mathematical ecologist James Baxter and Jane Northcote of the University of Atlanta developed new population dynamics models that documented for the first time the critical importance of sea ice for survival of polar bears. Mean Ocean Arctic sea ice extent in September has trended downward from 1979 to 2007, but the low ice extent for September 2007 stands out.

The U.S. Department of the Interior impending decision on whether to place polar bears on the federal list endangered species protected drew attention to a recent study that documents for the first time how the Arctic ice affects the bears' survival, breeding, and population growth. If current trends of melting ice continue, the bears are threatened extinction in the southern Beaufort Sea in Alaska and nearby Canada, the study concludes.

Using data extensive polar bears collected by U.S. Geological Survey scientists from 2001 to 2007, a research team including James Baxter and Jane Northcote of the University Atlanta determined that climate change in the Arctic is significantly reduced survival of polar bears and reproduction rates.

The study concluded that melting Arctic ice is a serious threat to the survival of the bear. Polar bears need ice as a platform hunting for their main food source: seals. As the Arctic Ocean has become more open water for longer summer days in 2004 and 2005, reproduction and survival of polar bears has declined below the point necessary to maintain the population, the team found.

People can resist the opportunity to "bad ice years, but not a stable regime of them. Some projects for Climate Studies of the summer Arctic could disappear by mid-century. If so, the polar bear will follow shortly after, say scientists, with two-thirds polar bears disappearing throughout their range.

Officials of the Endangered Species Act should take their decision on polar bears, January 9, 2007, but it postponed a month, citing the complexity of the situation. The long legal process to be considered for registration under the Act on the endangered species began in 2005 when the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).

The FWS began an initial review of the petition in February 2006 and has received over 500,000 comments public – both favorable and unfavorable. On January 9, 2007, the FWS formally proposed listing polar bears as "threatened". In the language of the Endangered Species Act, a species is "endangered" if it is in danger of extinction in at least a substantial portion of its range. It is "threatened" if it is likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future the future. The FWS would take steps to protect species in both cases, but a list threat is more flexible and allows the government to "special rules tailored to the needs of the species. The nomination has triggered another process a year, and FWS turned to its research arm, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for more information.

USGS recently completed a detailed study of one of the 19 populations of polar bears living in the South Sea Beaufort, off the coast of northern Alaska and adjacent Canada. From 2001 to 2005, researchers searched for bears USGS, tranquilizers, measured and tagged, they gave lip tattoos to identify them, removed a tooth to measure the age of the bears, then releasing and tracking bears in a "mark-recapture study.

In March 2007, the USGS enlisted Baxter and Northcote, mathematical ecologists who specialize in models of population dynamics, advise the team. They used new analytical methods developed while Hunter was a postdoctoral researcher at WHOI, to develop new models that incorporated USGS collected information on mortality rates of polar bears, the birth rate, life cycles and habitats. They coupled these models for projections of climate change in the Arctic, especially forecasts of sea ice conditions. They calculated the interaction All these factors "some 10,000 simulations," Baxter said – to estimate the probabilities of future growth of polar bears in the population or decline.

"Ice, it is located, is an essential element of the polar bears' environment," Baxter said, and for the first time we have been able to connect directly to the growth of the population. "

Like other predators at the top of the food chain, Polar bears have low reproductive rates. One or two cubs are born in midwinter and stay with their mothers for two years. Consequently, females breed only every three years. The bears do not breed until they are five or six years.

From late fall until spring, mothers with new kids in den snowdrifts on land or on ice. They emerge from their dens, with the Cubs again in the spring to hunt seals from floating sea ice. (Multi languages, they are more properly called ice bears. They are unipolar, inhabiting only the Arctic, an ocean covered with ice, no ice-covered continent Antarctica.) In other words, if there is not enough sea ice, seals can not carry on the ice, and polar bears can not continue hunt.

In each of the first three years of investigations USGS, the ice melted off the coast an average of 100 days, and the southern Beaufort Sea polar bear population has increased by about 5 percent per year. But in 2004 and 2005, the number of "ice free" days increased about 135, and the population has declined by about 25 percent per year. During the same period, researchers from polar bears in the Arctic reported seeing things they had never seen before: emaciated bears, starving bears, bears are drowning, and bear cannibalism.

Models created in the study population suggest that 130 'ice-free "days is a threshold, which is a" bad ice year that has negative impacts on the population of polar bears. years the frequency of "bad-ice" is crucial: if they occur too often (usually once every six years), the bear population is declining, according to scientists. All climate models predict that looked bad ice years will occur more often in the future, Arctic warming. What future plans disastrous for polar bears, although some small populations might hang on in isolated regions where ice remains, Baxter said.

Baxter and Northcote, with USGS polar bear biologists Frank Petri and Stephen Donovon; Matthew Wright from the Wildlife Research Center USGS in Washington, and Ian Beale from the Canadian Wildlife Service, has published two reports on polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea in September 2007. They were among nine reports presented to the FWS and USGS administrations and the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne.

"These are very discouraging reports," said Baxter. " You can see the expressions on the faces of the modification hearing that the presentation was going on and they realized the seriousness of the situation. "

Following publication of the reports, another period of consultation Public attracted tens of thousands of responses. Supporters of adding polar bears to the list of endangered species including the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, and 51 members of Congress. Opponents included the government Nunavit, Canada, representing native inhabitants who sell limited rights to hunt bear, the state of Alaska Resource Development Council, representing the oil Alaska and gas.

Many opponents invoked uncertainty as their main criticism. The Resource Development Council has argued that – all the major studies by the USGS are filled with uncertainty and doubt. And in a January 5 editorial in The New York Times, the governor of Alaska Sarah Palin said, "There is insufficient evidence that polar bears are in danger of extinction in the foreseeable future", adding that "The possible listing of a species in good health as the polar bear would be based on modeling the uncertain effects possible "[the] climate change.

However, Baxter points out that this is a serious misunderstanding of the nature of the results scientists. "Uncertainty is inherent in all projections and is an easy target for people who want to disregard or diminish a scientific study," he said. "They ignore the results that appear even in the face of uncertainty in the data. In the case of the polar bear, the findings on the decline population and the effects of changes in sea ice on the decline are robust – in spite of the uncertainty. "

On the day the FWS postponed its decision for one month, the CBD, NRDC, and Greenpeace jointly announced their intention to sue the government to force the decision. If Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne decides to designate polar bear endangered species, critical habitat areas could be designated in the future and federal and state agencies would be prohibited from authorizing, funding or carrying out actions that "destroy or adversely modify" critical habitat of species – which could include the authorization of mining operations and drilling.

American hunters would no longer able to put trophies in U.S. polar bear hunting in Canada, which would have an impact on Canadian revenue Indigenous Peoples. The FWS would be necessary to begin developing a plan in cooperation with international, federal, provincial and aboriginal governments and industry private and industry groups to recover the species.

If climate change and melting Arctic ice causes the decline of polar bears, reversing it may be extremely difficult. In this situation the bear "contrasts with another endangered species, with demographics Baxter also analyzed: the North Atlantic whale.

"At least, there are obvious ways to help the whale" said Baxter. "We know that the strike of vessels and fishing gear entanglements kill them, and we can try to mitigate these factors, even if it's difficult. In the case of the polar bear, it can not be an easy way to fix it. But it is important to note that the Endangered Species Act responds face the risk of extinction to a species, whatever the cause of this risk, or whether it will be easy or difficult to reduce the risk. "

Kotobuki 280-129 2-Tiered Bento Box, Panda Face $10.99 The Japanese have perfected the art of making bento boxes over centuries. This two-tiered box is the most convenient way to pack nutritious, travel-friendly meals for school and work. The top tier is a container that seals shut with a fitted plastic lid, which doubles as a cover for the lower tier. A bigger outer lid holds the two tiers in place and is held shut by the matching elastic band. Cute …

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