# @fromthebowseat on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CsthUteuN27
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20908732-fromthebowseat-instagram
- **Posted:** 2023-05-26T15:24:22.000+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
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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.⁠
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Polar bears require ice sheets to hunt and increased Arctic temperatures have resulted in polar bears struggle to find enough food.⁠
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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 this video is alive ✨

Video by mywildlive
Caption by earthlyeducation 

#bears #nature #photography #conservation #polarbear #bearawarenessweek #polar #icecap #antartica #savebears #savepolarbear #polarbears #bear #bearconservation #polarbearday #polarbearpuppy #polarbearphotography #penguin #flowers #north #cold

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