Polar bears 'will not survive without urgent action'

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WWF, the conservation charity, said that the five countries which are home to the polar bear must commit to action on global warming to save the animal, which is reliant on the sea ice.

Recent analysis by the US Geological Survey and World Conservation Union found that two-thirds of the 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears in the world could be lost in the next 50 years as warming temperatures melt the ice.

But WWF said an agreement signed in 1973 by the five Arctic states - Canada, Russia, the US, Greenland/Denmark and Norway - commits them to saving protecting the bear and its habitat.

While the original deal focused on threats from hunting that had decimated populations, WWF's polar bear co-ordinator Geoff York said polar bears could not now be protected without addressing climate change.

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[suede1]

1. K&R

[Double T]

2. The more people we add to the population the worse climate change will become.

Since humans can not control their need to excessively procreate, there is not much hope of reducing global warming and by extension saving the polar bear. Population control needs to be mandated by law with strict oversight throughout the world.

[MasonJar]

3. Climate change must be addressed NOW for the polar bear and for

all the Earth's species, including man.