Photographer Paul Nicklen;
It’s a soul-crushing scene that still haunts me, but I know we need to share both the beautiful and the heartbreaking if we are going to break down the walls of apathy. This is what starvation looks like. The muscles atrophy. No energy. It’s a slow, painful death. When scientists say polar bears will be extinct in the next 100 years, I think of the global population of 25,000 bears dying in this manner. There is no band aid solution. There was no saving this individual bear. People think that we can put platforms in the ocean or we can feed the odd starving bear. The simple truth is this—if the Earth continues to warm, we will lose bears and entire polar ecosystems. This large male bear was not old, and he certainly died within hours or days of this moment. But there are solutions. We must reduce our carbon footprint, eat the right food, stop cutting down our forests, and begin putting the Earth—our home—first.
This is just sad!
Writing about animals is not really my cup of tea but I feel that readers of the site needs to watch this video by NatGeo photographer Paul Nicklen. It’s a video of a starving Polar Bear and according “scientists say polar bears will be extinct in the next 100 years, I think of the global population of 25,000 bears dying in this manner.”