Polar Bears Matter

Polar Bears Matter
Author: Tammy Gagne
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1680772309


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What can we learn about the health of an ecosystem through polar bears? This title takes readers to polar bear habitats to understand why polar bears are suffering, what humans are doing to make matters worse, and the ways humans can help to ultimately save polar bears and Earth.

Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye

Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye
Author: Zac Unger
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-01-29
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 030682163X


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"I like to go out for walks, but it's a little awkward to push the baby stroller and carry a shotgun at the same time." -- housewife from Churchill, Manitoba Yes, welcome to Churchill, Manitoba. Year-round human population: 943. Yet despite the isolation and the searing cold here at the arctic's edge, visitors from around the globe flock to the town every fall, driven by a single purpose: to see polar bears in the wild. Churchill is "The Polar Bear Capital of the World," and for one unforgettable "bear season," Zac Unger, his wife, and his three children moved from Oakland, California, to make it their temporary home. But they soon discovered that it's really the polar bears who are at home in Churchill, roaming past the coffee shop on the main drag, peering into garbage cans, languorously scratching their backs against fence posts and front doorways. Where kids in other towns receive admonitions about talking to strangers, Churchill schoolchildren get "Let's All Be Bear Aware" booklets to bring home. (Lesson number 8: Never explore bad-smelling areas.) Zac Unger takes readers on a spirited and often wildly funny journey to a place as unique as it is remote, a place where natives, tourists, scientists, conservationists, and the most ferocious predators on the planet converge. In the process he becomes embroiled in the controversy surrounding "polar bear science" -- and finds out that some of what we've been led to believe about the bears' imminent extinction may not be quite the case. But mostly what he learns is about human behavior in extreme situations . . . and also why you should never even think of looking a polar bear in the eye.

Polar Bears on the Edge

Polar Bears on the Edge
Author: Morten Joergensen
Publisher: Spitsbergen-Svalbard.com
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2015-04-27
Genre:
ISBN: 3937903259


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Do you like polar bears? Do you want polar bears to be around in 50 years? Do you think that climate change is the only major threat to polar bear survival? Do you believe that polar bears are adequately protected today? Would you like to contribute to saving polar bears today and in the future? If your answer to any of those questions is yes, you need to read this book. "This book is an eye-opener and should kick off extensive debates."Dr. Thor S. Larsen, professor emeritus, Member of the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group 1968-1985. "In this impassioned book Morten raises very important, provocative questions that are not being addressed by the international environmental groups." Art Wolfe, Award-winning conservation photographer. In this book, the author analyses the current status of the polar bear. And he punctures the myth that polar bears are well protected and managed today. While most people think that global warming is the overhanging threat to polar bear survival, the author documents that it is actually the continuation of an unsustainable hunting pressure that is driving the species towards extinction. Across 228 pages, interspersed with beautiful photographs, Morten Joergensen demonstrates how there are probably fewer polar bears than most authorities claim, how hunting is the greatest manageable threat to the species, how current protection measures are insufficient, how the animal has been commercialized and how lack of courage and honesty is allowing this scenario to continue. The book also contains a long string of realistic and very urgent recommendations for action - to save polar bears before they are gone forever.

Polar Bears

Polar Bears
Author: Megan Borgert-Spaniol
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1532159838


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This title takes readers to polar bear habitats to understand why polar bears are at risk, what humans are doing to make matters worse, and the ways humans can help to save polar bears and ultimately, Earth. Sidebars, maps, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of this topic. Additional features include a table of contents, an index, and a fact sheet. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Polar Bears

Polar Bears
Author: Andrew E. Derocher
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2012-03-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1421403056


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Presents an introduction to the polar bear, discussing its evolution, physical characteristics, life cycle, predatory behavior, habitat, and the threats to its existence from global warming.

If Polar Bears Disappeared

If Polar Bears Disappeared
Author: Lily Williams
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2018-08-28
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 125022019X


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The freezing ecosystem in the far north of the globe is home to many different kinds of animals. They can be Strong, like a walrus Tough, like a lemming Resilient, like an arctic fox But no arctic animal is as iconic as the polar bear. Unfortunately, the endangered polar bear is threatened with extinction due to rapid climate change that is causing the ice where it hunts/lives to melt at an alarming rate. If Polar Bears Disappeared uses accessible, charming art to explore what would happen if the sea ice melts, causing the extinction of polar bears, and how it would affect environments around the globe.

On Thin Ice

On Thin Ice
Author: Richard Ellis
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2010-12-07
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0307454649


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Polar bears—fierce and majestic—have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, they are a symbol for the harsh beauty and muscular grace of the Arctic. But as global warming threatens the ice caps’ integrity, the polar bear has also come to symbolize the environmental peril that has arisen due to harmful human practices. In the past twenty years alone, the world population of polar bears has shrunk by half. Today they number just 22,000. Urgent and stirring, On Thin Ice is both a celebration and a rallying cry on behalf of one of earth’s greatest natural treasures.

How Would You Survive as a Polar Bear?

How Would You Survive as a Polar Bear?
Author: David Stewart
Publisher: The Salariya Book Company
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021-02-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1913337766


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How Would You Survive As A...? is a brand new nature strand in the globally bestselling You Wouldn’t Want To... series, looking at the struggles for survival of different animal species. Each volume follows a first-person narrative approach, telling the story of an example of the species as they deal with finding food, reproducing, raising their young, exploring their territory and fighting for dominance. The mix of humorous illustrations, bite-sized text, fact panels and diagrams provides multiple entry points for reluctant readers, presenting the information in a fun and accessible manner. How Would You Survive As A Polar Bear? explores the challenges faced by a female polar bear as she hunts in the inhospitable Arctic region and raises her young cubs. The end matter contains real life stories of polar bears highlighting conservation issues surrounding the species, illustrated with photographs to underscore that they’re non-fiction and drawn from the real world, plus family trees of related species, a quiz and statistics.

A Polar Bear's World

A Polar Bear's World
Author: Caroline Arnold
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2015-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1479582085


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The arctic wind howls, but the two polar bear cubs are warm inside their den. They snuggle tight against their mother and drink her milk. Three months later, they tumble outside for their first walk in the snow. Bundle up and find out what happens in a polar bear's world.

The Loneliest Polar Bear

The Loneliest Polar Bear
Author: Kale Williams
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1984826344


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“A moving story of abandonment, love, and survival against the odds.”—Dr. Jane Goodall The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating climate crisis is closely tied to our own Six days after giving birth, a polar bear named Aurora got up and walked away from her den at the Columbus Zoo, leaving her tiny squealing cub to fend for herself. Hours later, Aurora still hadn’t returned. The cub was furless and blind, and with her temperature dropping dangerously, the zookeepers entrusted with her care felt they had no choice: They would have to raise one of the most dangerous predators in the world by hand. Over the next few weeks, a group of veterinarians and zookeepers worked around the clock to save the cub, whom they called Nora. Humans rarely get as close to a polar bear as Nora’s keepers got to their fuzzy charge. But the two species have long been intertwined. Three decades before Nora’s birth, her father, Nanuq, was orphaned when an Inupiat hunter killed his mother, leaving Nanuq to be sent to a zoo. That hunter, Gene Agnaboogok, now faces some of the same threats as the wild bears near his Alaskan village of Wales, on the westernmost tip of the North American continent. As sea ice diminishes and temperatures creep up year after year, Agnaboogok and the polar bears—and everyone and everything else living in the far north—are being forced to adapt. Not all of them will succeed. Sweeping and tender, The Loneliest Polar Bear explores the fraught relationship humans have with the natural world, the exploitative and sinister causes of the environmental mess we find ourselves in, and how the fate of polar bears is not theirs alone.