The polar bear's survival is linked to the Arctic sea ice, a habitat greatly affected by climate change.

The loss of sea ice habitat from climate change is the biggest threat to the survival of polar bears. Other concerns for polar bears include lethal response to human-polar bear conflict, toxic pollution in the environment, and direct impacts from industrial development, such as disturbance of maternal dens or contact with an oil spill, and potential overhunting of some subpopulations.

The Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the global average, causing the ice that polar bears depend on to melt away. Loss of sea ice also threatens the main prey, seals, which need the ice to raise their young.

Together, we can leverage our power as citizens and get involved as members of community groups and organizations to save the sea ice that polar bears depend on!