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 * __The Polar Bear__**

My animal is a polar bear. They eat ringed seals and bearded seals. Female polar bears reach reproductive age at 4 and 5 years old. Males reproduce at age 6. Polar bears mate in April and May. Females are pregnant for four months and double in weight for gestation. Polar bears live in the northern hemisphere and can be found in all ice waters of the circumpolar artic.



The biggest threat to the polar bear is that the polar ice caps are melting and that the sea levels are rising. The rising temperatures have caused the season in which polar bears hunt ice seal has shrunk and has caused many polar bears to die of starvation. Hunting is also a threat to polar bears. Hunters killed more than 500 polar bears a year in Canada. Oil and gas drilling in their ice waters has caused air and water polution which is also a threat to polar bears. The US fish and wildlife service has also helped by proposing an area more than 200,000 square miles for polar bears under the ESA (endangered species act). The US has also banned all importing of polar bear trophies. The iucn status of the polar bear is vulnerable. This means that they are not endangered yet but are in danger of becoming endangered.

I think what we can do is that we can start a petition to help stop the poaching of polar bears. We can get millions and millions of people to sign our petition. Then we can bring it to the senator or someone of a high rank in the government they can give it to the president. Then he could give it to the canadian president so he could start stopping the poaching of hundreds and hundreds of polar bears each year. If the president of Canada won't do it we can also bring it to another place polar bears are hunted.



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