Polar bears drown as ice melts

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1938132,00.html

http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1214-polar_bears.html

Polar bears are apparently drowning because ice is melting which results in longer journeys between ice floes and they're not distance swimmers.

If you click on the full story from the page below you'll read about a study that showed that the polar bears habitat was known to be in danger in 1999.

http://www.researchmatters.harvard.edu/story.php?article_id=34


A UK campaign site that helps bears and other animals in zoos and in the wild.

http://www.bornfree.org.uk/polar.bear/index.html