Washington: U.S. wildlife managers have released a draft plan for withstanding the decrease of polar bears threatened by melting Arctic sea ice linked to global warming. The proposal is in association with the reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are far from assured. Under a plan to be officially submitted for public comment, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is urging cutbacks in carbon dioxide and other atmospheric pollutants generated by the burning of fossil fuels. The draft proposal does not quantify the extent of greenhouse gas reductions that the agency deems necessary to save polar bears from extinction. But as per the report, the decreased carbon emissions constitute the single most important action for the recovery of polar bears. An estimated 20,000 to 25,000 of the snow-white bruins are believed to remain in the Arctic, including parts of Alaska, Canada, Russia, Norway and Greenland. According to the U.S. Endangered Species Act in 2008, Polar bears are considered to be threatened following the disappearance of sea ice. They are the first animals granted such protection due to conditions tied to the global climatic changes. Polar bears, which weigh as much as 1,400 pounds, can stand as high as 11 feet tall and seen using floating sea ice as platforms for hunting, mating and even traveling vast distances. Accelerated melting of
polar ice has also led to a severe decline in the populations of polar bears. According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, the prevailing condition is being forced the bruins to swim longer distances and more quickly draining their crucial winter fat reserves in the body. According to the U.S. Geological Survey studies, polar bears face dramatic further declines in the next several decades even if reductions in greenhouse emissions could be realized and if global warming was stabilized. Video on Polar bear
