I, too, found it interesting. Especially now that the climate in the north is warming up the ice flows are disappearing and causing many polar bears to drown before reaching land. Their numbers are dwindling, as it is, and soon we will only be able to see them in zoos or animal compounds. Very sad, that.

Many years ago, oh about 30 I guess, my brother took an accounting job in Churchill, Manitoba where a resident could not take their garbage out to the bin area without another person accompanying while toting a .30-06 rifle. One for bear lookout, and one for garbage detail. He said the polar bears always raided the garbage bins, and would wait for the humans to come out. Brave souls who ventured out on their own rarely came back; usually ending up as a bear dinner.

When the animals and birds in their natural habitat begin dying out, it’s only a matter of time for us humans.

Here’s a quote for your blog that is fitting for the topic:

What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great
loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon
happens to man.
All things are connected. Man did not weave the web of life;
he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself.

–Chief Sealth (Seattle), Duwamish Tribe
(c. 1786-1866)