If Polar Bears are Endangered, shouldn't a new colony be established in Antarctica to preserve the species?

Question

Polar bears are said to be endangered because of the melting ice in the Arctic so shouldn't a colony be established in Antarctic where the ice is expanding and Penguins would provide plentiful food supply?

Ratchet - It's a 5 million Sq. mile Continent, actual land with lots of ice on the ocean around it. They would have plenty of space to expand and ample food supply hunting penguins.

Answer 1

Wow...you want to put polar bears on Antarctica, where the Emperor Penguin did NOT evolve with them and have the polar bears go in and eat entire collonies of Emperor Penguins?

By the way, you of course know tha polar bears main food is the ring seal....of which there are NONE in Antarctica, right?

Of course the problem would be that the seals that DO live in Antarctica only deal with predators from the sea (killer whales) and do no know, nor understand bears. So of course the polar bears might well be able to wipe out entire species of seals....several of the Antarctic seals are on the endangered species list.

So what is fair? Keep polar bears in their native habitat, and let them face possible extinction?

Or transport them to a continent where they have NEVER lived, and let the seals and penguins face possible extinction?

By the way, you do realize that 99.9% of the creatures that have ever walked the face of the earth, since the very begining have become extinct, right? You also realize that creatures that specialize into little ecological niches slate themselves for quicker extinction, right? (Bamboo eating panda bears, eucalyptus eating koala bears, ice living/hunting polar bears, ect)

Animals that eat a diverse number of things, and can live in diverse habitats do much better, when the earth has a crissis, like warming, cooling, fires, drought, monsoons, ect.

Polar bears specialized....they are loosing the evolution gamble. Black bears diversified....they are winning the evolution gamble.

~Garnet
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Active wildlife study over 40 years

Answer 2

You don't save a species by endangering others. We have too many examples of man moving a species to a new Continent resulting in more damage than benefit. The penguin have evolved flightless because there are no predators in Antarctica. If you added polar bears they would probably wipe out the penguin.

Answer 3

Antarctica is melting too. However, there is more land under the ice so the bears wouldn't sink. They would eventually have to adapt and change their diet - no longer hunting seals & fish out on the ice.

Now what will happen to the Penguins when all the ice melts?

Answer 4

Polar bears depend on seasons found only in the arctic. I would think that reproduction would be stunted in Antarctica.
Antarctic is also losing mass and ledges are at risk.
There are programs that have undertaken the increase in population, but the fact is...move them around, increasing programs for reproduction, etc... they are endangered. So are several penguin types.

Answer 5

LOL...then what will you have us do with the endangered penguins.

The dwindling polar bear population is just the latest propoganda being spread by the econuts. With all this global warming, how can antartica's ice be expanding?

Answer 6

Animal lovers won't hear of it. Remember the way they wanted to kill a polar bear cub in Germany because it was raised in captivity? They would look at the Antarctic bears as being illegitimate and demand their extermination.

Answer 7

The polar bears are not endangered and would actually thrive with a warming weather patterns. The numbers of polar bears have increased.

A survey of the animals' numbers in Canada's eastern Arctic has revealed that they are thriving, not declining, because of mankind's interference in the environment

Answer 8

Bio-diversity grasses and Polar Bears including other animals ans birds, must save/ preserve, in Antarctica Region.

Answer 9

No way. Mankind messes around with too much as it is. However if you had suggested Iran? I'm all for giving it a go.

Answer 10

The polar bare is not endangered , it is one of the meanest animals on earth. He can swim miles and the common joke of the zoo keeper ,it that u give him a basket ball of solid steal and he would tare it up.