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 struggle to find enough food.⁠ ⁠ A important factor to consider is that high carbon pollution nations are choosing this pathway - mass extinction and collapse is 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 utilise them.⁠ Ps: the polar bear in ...