Over 60% of 25.000 polar bears left live in Canada. It is crucial that Canada helps protects this endangered species since it is mainly found in its mainland. However, climate change, oil and gas exploitation as well as legal hunting of polar bears have meant this species is rapidly declining in size and losing its habitat with an all time low 75% female survival rate down from 95% in 2005.
The hunting of polar bears should be illegal but instead trophy-hunters from USA, where the hunting of polar bears is illegal, pay anything between $25.000 to $75.000 to hunt a polar bear and they are able to sell the hides for $11000 at auction in Canada. Texas based Safari Club International and Under Armour heavily promote these vile activities.
The hunting of polar bears for hide and fur remains legal in Canada and no one is holding this country accountable for the extinction of these creatures! Let's help save the polar bear by making sure its cubs and females survive long enough to make it into adulthood and to successfully reproduce, that way stabilizing and hopefully increasing the population of polar bears.