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Polar Bears All Die As Black Bear Gets Shot From Tree

by | 28th, May 2010

POLAR Bear Watch: Well, keep watching because those polies are all giong to die. The BBC condemns them (seals rejoice!):

Climate change will trigger a dramatic and sudden decline in the number of polar bears, a new study has concluded.

The research is the first to directly model how changing climate will affect polar bear reproduction and survival.

Based on what is known of polar bear physiology, behaviour and ecology, it predicts pregnancy rates will fall and fewer bears will survive fasting during longer ice-free seasons.

These changes will happen suddenly as bears pass a ‘tipping point’.

We predict a rapid return to a media focus on shagging panda bears. The pandas used to have it all their own way before the polies came… Meanwhile, over in a tree, black bear is doing his bit for his kind:

Spotter: Tim Blair



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