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Video footage from Canada's Arctic showed an emaciated polar bear struggling to find food on land without sea ice, due to climate change impacts. Researchers were moved to tears by the scene of the starving bear, rummaging through trash and likely dying soon after. Experts link the bear's condition directly to sea ice loss from warming, which denies bears access to their main seal food. If warming continues, polar bears may be pushed past a tipping point, declining 30% by 2050 due to lost habitat.

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Video footage from Canada's Arctic showed an emaciated polar bear struggling to find food on land without sea ice, due to climate change impacts. Researchers were moved to tears by the scene of the starving bear, rummaging through trash and likely dying soon after. Experts link the bear's condition directly to sea ice loss from warming, which denies bears access to their main seal food. If warming continues, polar bears may be pushed past a tipping point, declining 30% by 2050 due to lost habitat.

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'Soul-crushing' video of starving polar bear exposes climate crisis,

experts say

Footage from Canada’s Arctic shows emaciated animal seeking food in scene
that left researchers ‘pushing through their tears’

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Video footage captured in


Canada’s Arctic has offered a devastating
look at the impact climate change is having
on polar bears in the region, showing an
emaciated bear clinging to life as it
scrounged for food on iceless land.

The scene was recorded by the


conservation group Sea Legacy during a
late summer expedition in Baffin Island.
“My entire Sea Legacy team was pushing
through their tears and emotions while
documenting this dying polar bear,” photographer Paul Nicklen wrote on
social media after publishing the footage this week.

The video shows the bear struggling to walk as it searches for food. The bear
eventually comes across a trashcan used by Inuit fishermen, rummaging
through it with little luck.

The bear, which was not old, probably died within hours of being captured
on video, said Nicklen. “This is what starvation looks like. The muscles
atrophy. No energy. It’s a slow, painful death.”
The film-makers drew a direct line between the bear’s state and climate
change. “As temperatures rise and sea ice melts, polar bears lose access to
the main staple of their diets – seals,” the video noted. “Starving, and
running out of energy, they are forced to wander into human settlements for
any source of food.”

The association echoed a 2015 study from the International Union for
the Conservation of Nature that ranked climate change as the single most
important threat to the world’s 26,000 polar bears. Researchers – who
described the bears as the canary in the coal mine – found a high probability
that the population would decrease 30% by 2050 due to the changes in their
sea ice habitat.

As climate change boosts Arctic temperatures, sea ice – crucial to the bears
for hunting, resting and breeding – is melting earlier in spring and refreezing
later in autumn. The growing number of ice-free days could push the species
past a tipping point with widespread reproductive failure and starvation in
some areas, the report noted.

Satellite data published last year revealed that the number of ice-covered


days across the 19 Arctic regions inhabited by polar bears declined at a rate
of seven to 19 days per decade between 1979 to 2014.

Since posting the footage, Nicklen has been asked why he and his team did
not help the bear. “Of course, that crossed my mind,” he told National
Geographic. “But it’s not like I walk around with a tranquilizer gun or 400
pounds of seal meat.” Feeding polar bears is also illegal in Canada.

“There was no saving this individual bear,” he noted on social media. Instead
he highlighted the threat facing the species as a whole, which has become
emblematic of the ravages of climate change. “The simple truth is this – if
the Earth continues to warm, we will lose bears and entire polar
ecosystems.”

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video
Expertos dicen que el video de 'aplastamiento de almas' del oso polar
muerto de hambre expone la crisis climática

Imágenes del Ártico de Canadá muestran animales demacrados buscando


comida en una escena que dejó a los investigadores "empujando a través de
sus lágrimas"

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Las imágenes de video capturadas en el


Ártico de Canadá han ofrecido una visión
devastadora del impacto que el cambio
climático está teniendo en los osos polares
de la región, mostrando a un oso
demacrado aferrado a la vida mientras
buscaba comida en tierra sin hielo.
La escena fue grabada por el grupo de
conservación Sea Legacy durante una
expedición de fines de verano en la isla de
Baffin. "Todo mi equipo de Sea Legacy estaba empujando a través de sus
lágrimas y emociones mientras documentaba este oso polar moribundo",
escribió el fotógrafo Paul Nicklen en las redes sociales después de publicar el
video esta semana.
El video muestra al oso luchando por caminar mientras busca comida. El oso
finalmente se encuentra con un bote de basura utilizado por los pescadores
inuit, hurgando con poca suerte.
El oso, que no era viejo, probablemente murió a las pocas horas de ser
capturado en video, dijo Nicklen. “Así es como se ve el hambre. Los
músculos se atrofian. Sin energía. Es una muerte lenta y dolorosa ".
Los cineastas trazaron una línea directa entre el estado del oso y el cambio
climático. "A medida que aumentan las temperaturas y el hielo marino se
derrite, los osos polares pierden acceso al alimento básico principal de sus
dietas: las focas", señaló el video. "Hambrientos y sin energía, se ven
obligados a deambular en asentamientos humanos en busca de cualquier
fuente de alimento".

La asociación se hizo eco de un estudio de 2015 de la Unión Internacional


para la Conservación de la Naturaleza que clasificó el cambio climático como
la amenaza más importante para los 26,000 osos polares del mundo. Los
investigadores, que describieron a los osos como el canario en la mina de
carbón, encontraron una alta probabilidad de que la población disminuya un
30% para 2050 debido a los cambios en su hábitat de hielo marino.
A medida que el cambio climático aumenta las temperaturas del Ártico, el
hielo marino, crucial para la caza, el descanso y la cría de los osos, se está
derritiendo a principios de primavera y volviendo a congelarse más tarde en
otoño. El creciente número de días sin hielo podría llevar a la especie más
allá de un punto de inflexión con falla reproductiva generalizada y hambre
en algunas áreas, señaló el informe.
Los datos satelitales publicados el año pasado revelaron que la cantidad de
días cubiertos de hielo en las 19 regiones árticas habitadas por osos polares
disminuyó a una tasa de siete a 19 días por década entre 1979 y 2014.
Desde que publicó el video, se le preguntó a Nicklen por qué él y su equipo
no ayudaron al oso. "Por supuesto, eso se me pasó por la mente", dijo a
National Geographic. "Pero no es como caminar con una pistola
tranquilizante o 400 libras de carne de foca". Alimentar a los osos polares
también es ilegal en Canadá.
"No se pudo salvar a este oso individual", señaló en las redes sociales. En
cambio, destacó la amenaza que enfrenta la especie en su conjunto, que se
ha convertido en un emblema de los estragos del cambio climático. "La
simple verdad es esta: si la Tierra continúa calentándose, perderemos osos y
ecosistemas polares enteros".
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/08/starving-polar-
bear-arctic-climate-change-video

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