# @fromthebowseat on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CsyWbOHvi34
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20908730-fromthebowseat-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-05-28T12:24:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs 🪸 (@fromthebowseat) — https://gondola.cc/fromthebowseat

## Caption

"In over 30 years of living in the Arctic, four of those as a biologist working on polar bear projects, and the last twenty as a wildlife photographer, I have only found one dead polar bear. Last year, over a two-week period, we found two polar bears that had died of starvation.” - sealegacy founder and photographer paulnicklen⁠

The rate at which animals go extinct has expressed variability through time, and indeed extinction is natural, however, the speed at which species are going extinct is estimated to be ~1000 times faster than the usual baseline.⁠

Polar bears require ice sheets to hunt, and increased Arctic temperatures have resulted in polar bears struggling to find enough food.⁠

An important factor to consider is that high carbon pollution nations are choosing this pathway - mass extinction and collapse are completely avoidable, but we have to act now - the good news is that we have a plethora of readily available solutions, we simply need to utilize them.⁠

Let's raise awareness during World Bear Awareness Week and stand together to protect the polar bears and their vanishing habitats 🌍💙🐻 

You can be a part of our #ARTivism movement by participating in the 2023 Contest at www.bit.ly/byocean

#WorldBearAwareness #SavePolarBears #ActNow #Bear #PolarBear #Grizzly #GrizzlyBear #SlothBear #Sloth #Animals #Painting #Art #poem #Conserve #Conservation #ConserveFlorida #WillowProject #PolarBearDay #PolarBearWeek #Wild #WildLife #SaveIcecaps #MeltingIce #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

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