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= = = = =Polar Bear =  ** __Scientific Name:__ ** Ursus Maritimus. __** Diet: **__ The polar bear is the largest carnivore on land. Most of its diet consist of Ringed and Bearded seals, though they occasionally eat, walrus, beluga whales, musk-ox, reindeer, birds, eggs, rodents, shellfish, crabs, and even other polar bears. __** Geographical Location: **__ Polar bears usually inhabit where the seas meet the shorelines. They are located all over the Polar Regions in the Northern Hemisphere. Though most are found in Canada(15,000), they pad across Russia, Alaska, Greenland, and Norway. They don't really have a home turf like other bears. They mainly roam and do not protect the territory where they live. A polar bear may travel over 100,000 miles in their lifetime. __** Status: **__ Endangered ** __Cause of Decline:__ ** The polar bear is the first species to become endangered because of [|Global Warming]. Studies show that Global Warming is the number one threat to the polar bear species. It is thinning out the ice that they live on. Besides Global Warming and the thinning of ice, other way they die are disease, injury, and starvation since they have no natural predators other than man. Occasionally polar bears will become victims of killer whales, but not often. __**Timeline:**__ __**Help:**__ There are conservations all over Alaska, Canada, Russia, Greenland, and Norway. All of these places also have anti-poaching laws. There are also laws against polar bear trophies. The polar bear species in now protected under the Endangered Species Act. If you want to help you can [|adopt a polar bear.] __**Future:**__ Without the effort to prevent Global Warming it is predicted the polar bear population will decline another 30%. But with your help and the help of others we can slow down and even stop this decline.

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