Polar Bear as Canary in Coal Mine

Birds in the coal mine gave miners a warning that air was running out or gas was building up for an explosion.

Polar Bears are one of the species that serves as a warning sign that our whole world may be in danger - not just the bears - because if they disappear, other impacts endanger us as well.

Too many of us try to pretend we have no responsibility or that the worst will not happen - wrong x 2. Take a stand today!

clipped from www.savebiogems.org As their habitat melts away, Alaska's polar bears could be extinct by 2050. Polar Bear SOS But instead, Interior Secretary Salazar has cut the polar bear's lifeline by adopting a Bush era policy that prevents the government from using vital Endangered Species Act protections to save the polar bear from the two deadliest threats it faces: global warming and Arctic oil development.