Polar bears found swimming miles from Alaskan coast

my name is ketut widiana. i'm a student and live in bali. living in a tropical island make me unable to see a polar bear with my own eyes. and i want to see them one day when i grow up, so please WWF, safe the polar bear

please safe polar bear

I agree with many of comments which state that we must not stand around tracking etc. these wonderful bears. we all know they are dying we need to act!!! platforms at sea, feeding stations on land before they set out to find ice far out to sea!! taggging and tracking is futile at this point. i know that researchers dont like to interfere with nature but that stance at this point is ridiculous!! Even if obama and all of us are taking huge steps to reduce our impact on them it is too late to wait for these steps to take hold. we waited too long!!stop watching them die and help them out, give them food and platforms and whatever else they need now!!! we cant stop global warming fast enough! I know they can swim and that isnt the point! they can swim but in their weakened condition without enough food they are not going to make it.I will donate when you stop tracking and doing useless stuff! rescue them!!!

I think that a great comment Salty Dog. Polar Bear can swim great distance (polar bear have webbed feet?) but 1) If there was storm, even a polar bear can et into problem and drown 2) That more an more bears start to swim in order find ice = food 3) Fact that ice is disappearing because of global warming is real problem, and fact that more bears are found at sea is a sign of that growing problem. I wish people stop thinking poor-bears because they swim long ways - latin name of bear means sea-bear - they are fine. but need ice if are to live

Whoever wrote this article is a scare-tactic know-nothing. Back in the 60's and 70's I was a crewman on an icebreaker. Remember now, this is back when "global cooling" was the terror that was going to lay down a new ice age. Well guess what? We used to see polar bears swimming 100 miles offshore and they were no more in danger of drowning than the fish that swam around them. Polar bears have a thick undercoating of hair called “guard” hair. These hair follicles are hollow, full of air. For the bear, that’s like wearing a giant life preserver. In 1938, a Canadian ship crew spotted a polar bear 200 miles offshore on an ice flow. He jumped in the water and started swimming. The boat and the bear were headed back to shore at about the same speed. Two days later, the crew observed the bear scrambling back up on the mainland. He’d made it!

Attention WWF: polar bears swim very long distances from shore in their native waters. They've been doing it for eons and they'll continue to do it for eons to come. Furthermore, rather than printing garbage, why not post a single EMPIRICAL study with PEER REVIEW that proves polar bear numbers are declining. Put up or clam up.

I LOV EPOLAR BEARS AND I CERTIANLY THINK SOMTHING SHOULD BE DONE TO SAVE THEM

I agree with the first post, is there a program to RESCUE the polar bears that are so far out to sea? How much evidence does it take? I would like to see Greenpeace take this one on! Or you guys at WWF. We can't wait for "diplomacy" look what is happening to the US and the Palin sentiment is spreading "drill baby drill"

Why isn't anyone doing anything about this? I don't understand. They are drowning, and some are now even resorting to cannabalism. This isn't some national geographic episode where we should just stand by and let them act with nature. Build platforms, scoop them up and put them in zoos. Something! Don't just sit there and watch them drown.

It is times like these that make me believe mankind is the worst mammal ever to walk earth. All our problems have been from us.

The main reason of melting ice is the polluted atmosphere,we can't stop it,coz every country need industries to develop, but one option is to plant more and more trees, don't use wood furniture, instead use other metal furniture, ice melting is normal thing but because of polluted atmosphere our ozone layer is become thin and ultra violate rays from sun are penetrate in our atmosphere this is the main reason of all this..if we'll not serious abt this then one day we will also have to face lots of problem in future,then what abt poor animals?I don't want to do thing which is harmful to our nature..whatever u r from please aware your country people abt this because we have a strength to do anything animals cant's..all right...think on it..make others think..
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Jayesh Gadhvi,India.