Save Their Lives and Habitats Today, by Sophie & Pontea

February 13, 2020

Inuit tribe leader Mahlya Nantimo from Northeast Greenland is currently raising funds and awareness about polar bears in his area, but also other animals suffering of habitat loss. Mahlya grew up seeing and throwing fish to the polar bears, which is great but is still not enough to save the arctic region animals. He and his tribe have been using less energy in their huts and trying to make the shore an ok living space for them. Mahlya grew up seeing and throwing fish to the polar bears. He even raised a stranded polar bear cub with his family, so they're like family to him. If your family was dying, wouldn't you try to save them?

The Cub Mahlya Raised With Its Cubs

Although our species's population has been skyrocketing, since we find ways to survive in almost every possible climate change, it's not so for the other animals on this planet. Tens of thousand are currently endangered, and there's a whole list of great animals that are no longer with us. Who is to blame? You meat lovers out there, are you to blame? No! We are all to be blamed. Global warming is causing a lot of habitat loss for animals that live in remote areas, such as the polar bear. We are losing ice every minute which is putting polar bears at risk.

The polar bear habitat takes up the entire Arctic region. A polar bear's main habitat is offshore on pack ice so they can catch their prey better. Over 40 percent of all polar bears living today live in Northern Canada, on pack ice and along the shores. Slowly, our ice is getting melted away, and now they are on top of the endangered species list. You are probably thinking why am I to blame? We're to blame because we have our new iPhones, our constant electricity, and our cars. The earth is heating and the ice is melting. Soon, it might be bye-bye furry white Arctic friends, but we can change this and get their population back up!

The Arctic region is not only the region that is suffering.There's all this attention on the big and well-known animals, like the polar bear, panda, and elephant, but how about the unknown endangered animals? Don't they deserve a chance to survive too? Now, I'll tell you about an endangered animal that's not very well-known; the greater bamboo lemur. Just like pandas, they eat bamboo. There is only 12 percent bamboo of what it used to be, and the greater bamboo lemur now only has 46 in the wild. People have been cutting, farming on, and burning their food and habitat. Is that fair just because they can't speak up for their rights? Well, maybe they can, but we just can't understand. Same with them, they don't understand why we're doing this to them.

Let's give them their rights back! We can help by "adopting" an animal or by giving them their habitat back.

Greater Bamboo Lemur Back In Its Natural Habitat