| Imagine life as a polar bear, struggling to adapt to a changing climate. If you viewed yesterday’s polar bear slideshow, you saw challenges you would face, from drowning on long-distance swims to starvation from lack of sea ice on which to hunt. Imagine life as a polar bear, struggling to adapt to a changing climate. If you viewed yesterday’s polar bear slideshow, you saw challenges you would face, from drowning on long-distance swims to starvation from lack of sea ice on which to hunt.
There’s little that polar bears can do but try to adapt to a harsher environment—but there’s so much more that we humans can do. And it starts with you and me.
Will you make a gift of $15 or more to protect the polar bear’s future?
If you make your gift before midnight tomorrow, International Polar Bear Day, we’ll send you your choice of a polar bear plush animal or stainless steel water bottle.  According to the U.S. Geological Survey, only 43% of polar bear cubs born in Alaska’s southern Beaufort Sea between 2000 and 2005 survived their first year, compared to a 65% survival rate in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
And a recent study warned that at the current rate, two out of three polar bears will be lost by 2050.
Will you help us change the course of history towards for polar bears by making a gift today?
 Thank you for your kindness,
Emily Stevenson
Manager, Online Membership
P.S. I carry my own polar bear water bottle with me everywhere I go, as a reminder of just how much is depending on our work to slash carbon emissions, reduce deforestation, and preserve the natural ecosystems on which animals like the polar bear depend. Make a gift of $15 or more by midnight tomorrow, International Polar Bear Day, to claim your own!  |
