How Can We Save Polar Bears?

Bob Weber (2007) says in his article, a European-based company, Wildtrack, invented a tool that can help researchers to gather information about polar bears. It has been used on rhinos in Africa and tigers in India. With the machine, the researchers need just an Inuit bear tracker to do the research. Wildtrack is a revolutionary machine that uses the photographs taken by the machine to measure the distances and angles of their five toes and foot; thus it takes not much cost compared to other machines. By using this machine, researchers can distinguish polar bears’ sex and age, and furthermore, they can identify the bears individually. This research system needs a local Inuit bear tracker to get information, so it offers Inuit the opportunity of manage their wildlife.

Polar bear’s lives have been threatened for years due to accelerating of global warming and hunting. Polar bears population is 20,000 to 25,000 (Polar Bears International, 2007), but it is decreasing year by year. In order to save polar bears from the warming up of the earth of earth and hunting, we need to identify polar bears individually, in order to take care of them successfully. In order to save our precious lives on the earth, we should know polar bear well.

First, we should research polar bears more specifically. Unless we know about them, it is impossible to save their precious lives. Lately the U.S. government has considered polar bear as an endangered species, which means there are not plenty of polar bears in the world anymore. We need more detailed polar bears research.

Moreover, we should invest in polar bears, especially for the researchers. If there were a smaller number of polar bears in the world, it would be even harder than now to save polar bears from the crisis. That means it is not too late. If we postpone the research on polar bear, we can’t see them in the near future. We have lost many kinds of species of animals in the world by our unconcern of them. We should not let it happens again.

Finally, without people’s concern, nothing will happen. Even though we have tremendous information on polar bears, we can’t save them without our concern toward them. For example, if you prize someone, you do not treat him or her without your concern. We have to have the same way to treat polar bears.

In conclusion, polar bears are threatened by global warming, hunting, and people’s unconcern. In order to save them, we should research more, invest in them, and treat them with our concern. Our unconcern of environment caused the injurious circumstances to polar bears; therefore, we have to solve the problems. We have to realize it is not only caused by us, but also we have the key to solving it.

Reference

Weber, B. (2007, October 28) How do you ‘fingerprint’ a polar bear? The Star. Retrived on October 29, from http://www.thestar.com/News/article/271313