Habitat
The polar bear lives at the southern edge of the arctic icecap. They often live on coastal
offshore rocks and islands. In the Summer, when the ice melts, some polar bears come
ashore. For a few months, they act just like brown bears staying in the forest and eating
wild berries.Predator/Prey
The polar bear eats two kinds of seals. They are the ringed seal and the bearded seal.
These two seals are usually what the polar bear eats, but sometimes a polar bear eats a
walrus pup. They don't have any real enemies except for poachers which are people.
What Can We Do?
Polar bears have protection laws that tell you how many you can hunt. What we can do is
follow these laws. People need to also learn to ignore them. In the town of Churchill in
Canada, polar bears scavenge for food in dumps, while waiting for the Hudson Bay to
freeze. The people of the town have learned to tolerate them.
Endangered Facts
There are about 1,500 polars bears left. 700 of them die every year. The reason they die
is because of oil spills, falling through ice, and prey (food) dieing. The polar bear is a
sea mammal. It is a sea mammal because in has live babies and has fur which mammals have,
but it also lives partly in the sea.
