Polar Bears An endangered species

By: Zaid Ansari

Assalamualaikum my name is Zaid Ansari. I would like to apply for the Junior Journalist job for the National Geographic. I am doing my research on the endangered Polar Bear. The things I will cover in my application are: the animals habitat, the country/continent this animal is located in, some interesting facts about the animal, what caused it to be endangered, and lastly what people can do to save this animal from becoming extinct.

Introduction

The polar bear spends many months of the year near the sea. It prefers to live at the annual sea ice covering over the interisland archipelagos and over the continental shift. Polar Bears are mostly found around the polar ice pack. The Polar Bear has a habitat where sea ice meets the water. Seals migrate as weather changes in the year. Polar Bears have to follow their prey in order to survive. If a polar bear travels south using the ice as its route and it doesn’t go back before summer, then the ice melts an the polar bear is stuck in the area until the next freeze up. This happens in places like the Hudson bay and James bay.

The Polar Bears Habitat

The Polar Bear is located in the arctic circle consisting of seven countries. The seven countries are: Canada, U.S.A., Russia, Greenland, Norway, Finland, Sweden. The Polar Bear comes as south down as Newfoundland

The Country/Continent the Polar Bear is Located

Some interesting facts about Polar Bears are: Polar Bears can stay warm in extreme harsh weather thanks to their

insulating fat layer and their two layers of fur. Polar bears have problems with overheating rather than staying

warm Polar Bear are the closest relatives to Brown Bears If an adult male Polar Bear stands on its hind legs it could be ten

feet tall Male adult polar bears usually weigh around 775 to 1 200 pounds Female adult Polar Bears usually weigh around 330 to 650 pounds There are about 25 000 Polar Bears world wide Polar Bears have been around for 600 000 years Polar Bears in the wild live from 15 to 18 years, but in captivity they

can li9ve up to 30 years

Interesting Facts About Polar Bears

Polar Bears need cold to survive. Polar bears live on ice and ice bergs. Humans have polluted the earth to an extent that we started global warming. Global warming causes rapid shifts in weather from very hot to very cold. This effects Polar Bears because the north turns warm. This causes the Polar Bears habitat to melt and drift (due to the heat global warming causes) into the water. So the polar Bears have no where to live and they also become overheated because they were naturally built to withstand cold weathers so even a little bit warmer causes them to overheat. These outcomes of global warming cause Polar Bears to die in huge amounts endangering them and it is all our fault.

What Caused Polar Bears to Become Endangered

What people have to do to save this animal is very simple. All we have to do is make a difference by not polluting. Polluting is what causes global warming. Instead of decreasi9ng global warming we are increasing it more and more and we are not the only species that is affected by this. We pollute and give ourselves luxury while animals such as the Polar Bear do nothing to harm the environment and yet they suffer. This is because of us. So all we have to do is treat the world better and stop polluting because after all it is our amanah as muslims.

What People Can Do to Help Save This Animal