Polar bears under threat as sea ice melts in Canadian arctic - BBC News
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- The United Nations biodiversity summit in Montreal is seeking a new agreement to protect endangered plants and animals.
It comes as researchers warn of the threat to polar bears in the Canadian arctic, where dwindling sea ice is putting their survival at risk.
The bears hunt and fish in Hudson Bay around the town of Churchill.
Mishal Husain presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Victoria Gill.
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Canadian here. I suggest these scientists talk with the elders of our indigenous peoples of the north. You may learn your findings have to be adjusted.
The right use the same bullshit line in Australia
Dialogue is key, as you say. Si is fact-based decision making.
It’s funny how much money goes into watching polar bears compared to helping them.
They need their prior natural habitat to thrive which is disappearing. Putting them in zoos is not helping them.
@@yvonneplant9434 Proof? Their habitat is constantly changing. That's the lot of a polar bears life. It's precarious by nature.
You've never even seen a polar bear.
Well, these guys aren't just watching them for fun, they are watching them to gather scientific data in order to help them!
Maybe they could use the money to buy them freezers. Or maybe buy fish?
There are twice as many polar bears in Canada today than there was two decades ago
Yes, banning killing them does help with that, don't you think?
And yet Naturalists and Scientists are concerned about their overall diminishing population numbers due to less and less ice for them to rest on and hunt from...
People have been saying there will be no more polar bears in the next 10 years… since like 40 years ago.
Yep, this is lies. The polar bears live a precarious life by nature. They always have feast and famine, habitat often under threat regardless.
This is vile propaganda, manipulation of mass ignorance and perception of reality.
Oooooo... polar bear story. Lather, rinse, repeat. Year after year.
Scientific research shows that the number of polar bears in Canadian arctic INCREASED and the same is true about other areas of the Arctic.! (I live in Canada)
Those are probably hybrid varieties. I guess so.
Yes, this is stating that their populations are expected to decrease in the future if ice continues to melt.
They don't like the truth on here.
Bears are just amazing.
They have heaps of really interesting adaptations to the cold. For example, their black skin helps keep them warm. And their hairs are hollow inside to trap air and insulate them. Sometimes you get polar-grizzly hybrids and their traits are in-between (e.g. some of them have hollows in their hairs but they are smaller or shaped differently). They expect polar-grizzly hybrids are becoming more common as brown/grizzly bears expand their range north due to warming temperatures and polar bears begin to venture to new areas in search of food. In fact the two bear species only diverged a few hundred thousand years ago so they have been interbreeding here and there for their entire evolutionary history and share a lot of DNA.
@@murph_mustela What would happen if we imported hundreds of dinghy loads of Brown bears into Polarbearland every day? Surely that would not end well?
@@JamesSmith-qs4hx Yes, I think it would be bad for the brown bears. The brown* bears would die probably as they can't survive in the harshest arctic conditions nor can they hunt on sea ice. But probably in the long term I suppose it wouldn't have a massive impact on the polar bears or the rest of the northernmost arctic as the brown/grizzlies would die so quickly.
But in any case brown (grizzly*) bears' range already overlaps with the much of the range of polar bears. They can be found in the subarctic and lower latitudes of the Arctic. They don't stay in the more northern parts over winter though since they can't hunt on the sea ice and are not so well adapted for the cold.
*grizzly bears are a subspecies of brown bear, they are a type of brown bear.
@@JamesSmith-qs4hx 'Polarbearland' is a funny word for the Arctic haha! :)
@@murph_mustela But they would get violent, want free stuff and demand reparations right?
I feed the stray animals that break into my garage and attic in winter, because everything has a right to live. Cheers from Burnaby, CANADA
Don't advertise too much; humans will be next breaking into your garage to be fed
This creates a dependency on humans. Feeding wild animals may seem like a good gesture but it's never a good idea.
Dependence swings many ways ,stray animals in Canada show up all the time here in these parts. I don't have to tell them to go home like people that hang around. Never a good thing is dependent on where you are at that moment 🤔
Polar bear numbers have increased over the last 10 years.
RINSE & REPEAT "NEWS" STORIES 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
we hear this bear crap every year
Do they shit in the woods
You do realise that we’re all laughing at the crappy quality of bbc journalism now don’t you ?
I say give every polar bear an ice cold Coca-Cola and we call it even
Relentless propaganda.
This is so sad 😭
Not really. Most of Earths existence there has been no poles or bears so normal really.
Yet the Indigenous people say population is growing, that your reporter isn't interviewing the real EXPERTS shows disrespect of the indigenous people.
Not this polar bear again? They use the same bear everytime
What’s new, we are all under threat of extinction facilitated by human activities and inactions…
In the uk we had snow...... its winter
Now we are at a point where everyone is under threat of some kind of disaster.
Only in your damaged mind
Just as the UK opens its first Coal Mine since...
“CO2 for different people has different attractions. After all, what is it? - it’s not a pollutant, it’s a product of every living creature’s breathing, it’s the product of all plant respiration, it is essential for plant life and photosynthesis, it’s a product of all industrial burning, it’s a product of driving - I mean, if you ever wanted a leverage point to control everything from exhalation to driving, this would be a dream. So it has a kind of fundamental attractiveness to bureaucratic mentality.” - Richard S. Lindzen
So that there will be enough electricity for the snowflake brigade to charge their IPhone's, in order to whine about 'cLimAtE cHanGe' on social media! 🙄🤦
It’s minus 27 today
“CO2 for different people has different attractions. After all, what is it? - it’s not a pollutant, it’s a product of every living creature’s breathing, it’s the product of all plant respiration, it is essential for plant life and photosynthesis, it’s a product of all industrial burning, it’s a product of driving - I mean, if you ever wanted a leverage point to control everything from exhalation to driving, this would be a dream. So it has a kind of fundamental attractiveness to bureaucratic mentality.” - Richard S. Lindzen
Stupid comment!!
@@beatricecallan Go on...... We would love to hear why?
I claim that you and Lindzen do not understand the meaning of the word pollution.
Because if you think that the fact that CO2 is essential for life on earth somehow excludes CO2 from being a pollutant then you obviously can't comprehend the concept of pollution.
@@nunofoo8620 I just looked up pollutant and it said substance essential for life 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
@@JamesSmith-qs4hx No, it does not say a pollutant is a substance essential for life. Do you have the intellectual courage to look up what the word pollution means?
Let me give you an example that is not CO2:
Nitrates are common components of fertilizers. They are essential to multicelular life on earth. Plants can't grow without nitrogen in the soils.
Yet, if you put to much of it in the soils it burns plants roots and kills wildlife. Suddenly the same substances that are not only "natural"but vital for life become toxic due to the excessive quantities.
Because that is what a pollutant is: A pollutant is a substance that is present in concentrations that may harm organisms (humans, plants and animals) or exceed an environmental quality standard. The term is frequently used synonymously with contaminant.
So anything can be a pollutant in the right circumstances. I understood that when i was 13 yo. But apparently there are a lot of adults who can't grasp simple highschool science concepts.
White bear needs white ice land.
To increase white bear needs to increase white ice land.
There are no other ways.
Did you know 400 brown bears arriving every day to the land where polar bears live? It's organised by a certain group of people.
Paw rubbing intensifies....
Propaganda. As regards the melting of Arctic Ice, the records nearly always seem to start in 1979. Strange that, considering it was a year of record extent for Arctic Ice. Even so, data from NOAA (2022) show winter (March) ice coverage has hardly changed since '79, and that the summer (September) coverage trend had stopped declining since 2007. How inconvenient! Didn't someone predict in 2007 Arctic ice free by 2010, or 2015, or 2013, or in 5 years? Or was it in 2008 the Arctic ice sheet would melt away. Also predicted in 2008 North Pole ice free in ... 2008 ... or in 10 years. 2009 prediction: Arctic ice free in 2014. 2012 prediction: snow will be gone by 2020. And 2013 star prediction: Methane catastrophe in 2 years because of ice free Arctic. 2018 prediction: zero chance of permanent ice in Arctic by 2022. It's still there, and it's stopped shrinking.
If you consider global sea ice cover, it was basically flat from 1981 to 2008, rose until 2010, stayed level until 2015, dropped until 2018, and then rebounded almost all the way back to the 1990-2000 average. Nobody predicted theses changes, nor can they explain them. The changes have no relationship to the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.
The climate crisis/emergency/apocalypse is make-believe.
Polar Bear birthrates are up ...oops
" the message" continues
Same story has been printed every year since Al Gor ran for President
…..climate claptrap…🙄
I’m sure they’ll adapt
Canadian arctic sea ice levels are perfectly normal. Why would you completely made up this story??
LIAR!!!!
The numbers have increased since 1973. Some cross bred with brown bears.
Maybe that’s what’s threatening their survival. Once you go black you never go back.
@@deejay7648 polar bears have black skin, but their hair is white. Hair for camo, skin to absorb heat. They both are related.
What a coincidence that polar bear hunting has been banned since 1973!
Errrrrr cross breading...with Brown 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Why don't they just sell their homes and move?
There has been more snow in the past couple years then it has been it decades, complete bs
More polar bears too!
@@pjdunnit6753 Wow, when we take action to improve something, it improves! What a novel idea.
More extreme weather... Wow, that's totally a sign that the scientists are lying that more extreme weather will happen!
@@artemis1522 What actions were taken?
@@pjdunnit6753 Polar bear hunting was banned in 1973 and, what a surprise, polar bear numbers are up since then!
According to Dr Susan Crockford, Polar bears have never been better.
A pseudo expert. Crockford is a crock of Climate Change denier nonsense.
Bring them to Pennsylvania, Plenty of Winter here
We have a sea world in Pennsylvania! Haha
These people destroy nature for entertainment,so many fools watching orcas perform in the Sea world, they are taken away from their habitats,from huge oceans to small pool like enclosures, making them beg for food killing their instincts to hunt, and huge amount of sunscreen is dumped on them to prevent discolouration of the skin because of the intense sun in shallow waters,because in ocean orcas are in deep waters during extreme heat and Sun ,so they are protected , and fed supplements that isn’t natural and healthy,playing with their hormones ,for breeding purposes, it’s a cruel entertainment to tame huge,gigantic creatures .Don’t know why people watch these crap that are caged through their lives and are traumatised.
that hole i think they rather die
Bio diversity is inclusion of all species in it’s natural habitat and environment,one cannot survive at the exclusion of the other members of the planet Earth, if you don’t protect the key species,you may introduce new problems due to foolhardiness ,to progress mindlessly.
It's OK, we will be fine without them. But why they just don't treat them like chickens and cows and skin them at the right time?
Be happy people 😊 polar bears numbers have been increasing for years!!
They look supercute. Are they dangerous to okay with ?
You clearly watch too many Disney cartoons kid. These animals are neither cute nor friendly and don't give a F* about you.
Polar bears are the most dangerous bears and they hunt humans and are killing machines they can kill the average human easily so yeah you can play with them if you want.
@@LegallyNoturDad But Google says they don't get provoked by humans.
They are extremely dangerous!
I live close to the Canadian port of Churchill Manitoba, where tourists pay big money to ride on tundra buggies and see polar bears. There are no shortages of polar bears...because there is no shortage of ice in the Arctic. These liars who are fear mongering about climate change don't even seem to understand the basic facts of life in the Arctic. If they did , they would realize that polar bears eat seals...and seals eat fish...and fish eat plankton...and plankton depend on sunlight to live. If the Arctic didn't have open water, there would be no plankton, no fish, no seals and no polar bears. They get these idiotic biologists to speak at these meetings , and they don't even understand basic biology.
Spot on .The image climate change pushers got busted using a image of a underweight Polar Bear. The Polar Bear was a very elderly Bear at the end of its life .
Yes! Thank you!
You think you know more than highly qualified professionals based on... What? Anecdotal evidence?
@@artemis1522 Eyewitness evidence for one thing, and repudiation by many scientists for another thing. Furthermore most of them are NOT highly qualified experts, they are people who have never even been in the Arctic but rely on computer models for projections. Computer models have nothing to do with science because they are NOT scientifically testable, they can only be compared to other models. Stephen Hawking called this "model dependent realism"...in Hollywood they have another name for it...CGI...nothing real corresponding to reality. Another problem with modelling has been the constant mistakes that even amateur mathematicians have uncovered...and mistakes tend to be amplified over time resulting in gross miscalculations the further out you project. These people are just on the payroll so they will say whatever they get paid to say.
And in the meantime a few thousand of dolphins died in the Black Sea most probably due to the military activities. Homo destructivus, not sapiens. Still. And for a long time.
Along with the “ice free Arctic summers” prediction the “all the polar bears are dying” prediction is climate hysteria at its finest.
Complete BS.... there are twice as many polar bears today than there was two decades ago
This comment is idiocracy at it's finest.
@@mackabeats did you enjoy your bugz for breakfast?
@@eriihfYou know there’s somewhere around 2 billion people that eat insects as part of their daily diet?
It's lies. The polar bears live a precarious life by nature. They always have feast and famine, habitat often under threat regardless.
This is vile propaganda, manipulation of mass ignorance and perception of reality.
As an american, I'm not going to let some Canadian tell me that I can't hunt polar bear with a spare, a Bowie knife, and a brick!
Canada has no respect for animals,detest their annual seal 🦭 hunt, seals are huge creatures, they need to be protected.
YES ALL POLAR BEARS SHOULD BE SHOT ON SITE!!
*Canada🇨🇦* 🤔
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Spamming expert you are!!!
Did nobody at BBC watch the Attenborough programmes this year
And it’s on the BBC too.
If they can not walk back home they can try to swim back home.
Really, I heard that there r more polar bears than ever!
What a clown your probably a climate denier polar bears will go extinct soon yet you’ll probably delude yourself into thinking that it wasn’t climate change nah they just all magically died
Explain why the polar bear population has increased.
Shhhhhhh. You’ll spoil it.
Hunting them was banned in 1973, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence, right? It couldn't possibly mean that less polar bears dying means that more polar bears will be born?
@@artemis1522 but climate change was killing them not hunting silly🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Thanks. Took screenshot of this just so that I would come across it when least expected.
Untrue! Read wildlife biologists report that was released not only are they not endangered in anyway in fact bounties are being paid because of over population!
That’s an outrageous lie.
@James Morrow - Polar bears are being culled because their are too many.
A species with 22-31,000 individuals is overpopulated? Please, save your lies for fools who will believe them.
bbc, send extra ice from london to canada
It's all gone mate. it's 14 degrees here in London, and I've just put my room fan back on again!
Thanks humans 😂
Ice melts every Summer. This very hard Winter will freeze it all solid again. The Polar bear population is getting out of control, too many bears.
Polar bears aren’t in danger.
There welcome to come to Idaho. We have plenty of ice.
What a load of political BS.
How do you know hes testing the ice, he may be scratching his nuts . 🦧
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Just change name from Polar to North Atlantic bear...end of.
Why do we need to have arctic scientists as a profession? Everyone can put two and two together. We can't stop it, it doesn't help to measure it and record it. What is your work on a day to day basis, what about hour to hour? and where do you get your salary from? The government? Thus the people? Why don't you change profession and start working for sustainable companies instead to do practical work? No need to spend more than the time you already spent measuring it, you have the results, move on
This is unBearable to watch.
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The more people know about their rights, and the rights of others in society, the better equipped they are to protect them.”
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Why havent the polar bears been recommended MAID yet?
I Feel pity for these polar bears😢 They may feel the coming tragedy!
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Why are you telling us this instead of telling us concrete measures to mitigate this. Always putting all the load on us when it's corporations who are leading us to absolute disaster. Stop mortifying us and DO SOMETHING. Tell your masters to DO SOMETHING.
─ *Jiddu Krishnamurti🇮🇳* ─
Born: May 11, 1895, Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Died: February 17, 1986, Ojai, California, US.
Occupation: Philosopher, author, public speaker
Parent(s): Annie Besant (adoptive parent)
I said I was going to avoid negative headlines but it seems imposible, I'm already concerned about earth and human species and with Putin on presidency invading Ukraine it really makes me anxious I hope all of this comes to and end soon
Don't see the polar bears doing news reports on our human crisis of rising sea levels tho do you ?
Polar Bear population is at its highest. This is false hysteria as usual.
Thanks China🇨🇳 for continued
- building more and more *coal-fired power plants,* and
- burning more and more *fossil fuel.*
Not trying to be cold-blooded. But even ourselves will extinct at some point. Besides, the zoo's can help breeding some individual couples. Save our tears for our own fate.
─ *Jiddu Krishnamurti🇮🇳* ─
"Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher, speaker and writer. In his early life, he was groomed to be the new World Teacher, but later rejected this mantle and withdrew from the Theosophy organization behind it.
His interests included psychological revolution, the nature of mind, meditation, inquiry, human relationships, and bringing about radical change in society.
Does he identify as a polar bear?
That’s it another animal on the extinct list. Keep adding them up coz it’s going that direction regardless of what anyone is trying to do!
The numbers are increasing.
Humpback whales in Australia 1971 about 500 sighted 2022 34,000 sighted get real.
It was one of the furst animals on this list……did you not know?
@@beatricecallan What is a furst animal Beatrice?
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Is the The Bear CIS
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He stressed the need for a revolution in the psyche of every human being and emphasised that such revolution cannot be brought about by any external entity, be it religious, political, or social. Krishnamurti was born in South India in what is now the modern day Madanapalle of Andhra Pradesh.
In early adolescence, he met occultist and theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater on the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras."
Suggestion I know it and I might not be a good one. But I know that it would work. Why couldn't you make docs for them to hunt off of so the seals can get on there and all the sea creatures can feel comfortable on these huge platforms or docs man-made you can paint them white or the wood could be white it's not wood use so that wood plastic so it doesn't rot or whatever you know if you make a huge dock they could have a chance to eat something at least. It's not very big but it's enough if you make a whole bunch spread out everywhere. Make sure to paint them white or the material that you use is white. So it can reflect the sun.
I've been suggesting that for the last 5 years.... Making large floating docks that are anchored in the ARTIC circle where the ice used to be also gives the seals a place to haul out for rest.. If we don't start protecting our world's Natural wild life ... Soon there will be nothing to save.. What a Sad day that will be...
We need to stop hunting whales as they are another carbon sink helping remove parts of what's causing our climate changes around the globe.. Your not doing scientific research harvesting a whole whale when a small tissue sample is all you need for your tests.. Japan.. And your school children don't want to eat WGAT ever it is your calling the whale meat to try to fool the kids .. They know the truth too.
Fuck polar bears. They would kill you in an instant if they could.
@@johnnysanchez4996 . It's in their nature. Don't take it personally. It's not like they're seeking people out to eat them. They don't even like the taste of us. But they would eat us because they need to store fat when they sleep. I love the polar bears. And I do take it personally when you talk like that towards them. Cuz they don't mean it. But you you do.
@@marianlincoln9008 I know that it would definitely work. Take some time. But they can also make the dogs out of recycled material. Just make sure that they paint the top white. And then eventually it would also turn to ice it will ice over and then ice will form on that and then ice will form on that. And it also helps reflect the Sun
@@heatherdikes4477 Shut up you weirdo.
They can come to UK!
People continue to ignore the environment. The results? Are now devastating. Habitat deterioration. Disgraceful.
With lots of polar bears it seems.
Shut the fuck up! You’re literally on a device that is powered by fossil fuels.
Best place to hold the World Cup for generations
I watched some of the World Cup. I didn’t realise that it was in the Arctic. Things really have got a lot hotter.
@@deejay7648 well it has sun 24-7 in the summer. See it now. They won’t show it.
The BBC. BLMers of the BBC. Must be horrified that the BLMers of France didn’t do it
We caused the problem well feed them simple..
They’re really good swimmers.
They can swim about 60 minutes if I remember right but with no ice they drown or might be 60 miles either way it's the same outcome.
Data doesn’t lie people do. Tony Heller RUclips. Research
Tony Heller aka Steven Goddard is a notorious liar and fraud. He has a degree in Geology and has never published any scientific papers.
Really sad news
Sad
When i die i would like to donate my body to the bears and the sharks can eat my head and may my sole return to a vegan world as i seek a new world and will leave no children as humans are monsters who have over run the earth from eating the flesh of beasts and drinking there milk
Species cuckoldry. Does your national flag have a leaf on it per chance?
@@pjdunnit6753 no i dont recognise country’s or identify as being from country only just a human from earth. Im not tribal either. And Tax’s is the oldest scam there is
@@kerrymillar4981 I jest. That's fairly noble actually. Just as long as you're against vegan polar bears, right?
@@pjdunnit6753 lol if a bear wants to eat plant based im sure he would be fine
@@kerrymillar4981 Maybe. If vegans count as 'plant based', then I guess...
Brandon babbling Biden will save the day!
Polar bear going extinct
Boy are you uninformed.
Take 30 or 40 or so and send them to Antarctica......problem solved
In other news
The world like all things has an appointed time to end
And that time is very close
Soon Jesus will be back to Judge all those who know not God and obey not the Gospel
All of the animals come off the land said the Lord God
These animals are horrible! Good riddance.
Shut up
@@sam-ze8bz My little girl was killed by one of those monsters, so believe me when I tell you, they are not what you want coming into your village.
So polar bears can't swim!!!!
They’re excellent swimmers, but it uses up too much energy to swim after seals. They wait on the ice for a seal to pop up through a hole, then they nab it.
What a great day it’s been at Qatar World Cup Argentinian what a game by. Messi They deserve the world up
Argentina. Pft bunch of douchebags with a superiority complex. They can FO
Real men don’t watch soccer
@@johnnysanchez4996 - or football.
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Heartbreaking
Correct response. Get chipped.
Huh, they would kill you in an instant.
"The problem with following the science is that the science follows the money."~Max Lugavere.
I can't turn my back on a polar bear.
It would kill you
Humans eh
Tell COP15