Video: Why Alaska Polar Bears Are Leaving For Russia

Really interesting short video above from environmental group Down to Earth.

Here’s more from the group from this YouTube video:

It is reported that between 2001 and 2010, there was a 40% drop in Alaska’s polar bear population. This is of great concern to us humans as well because one of the many signs of global warming is the change in animal population and habitation. This drop in polar bear population is being credited to polar bears’ migration to Russia from Alaska due to rising temperatures in Alaska.

In the last 50 years, there was a 4.8-degree Celsius rise in Alaska’s annual average temperature. This rise has resulted in the loss of sea ice that directly affects the bears by redistricting their hunting ground. The migration has resulted in a booming increase in polar bear numbers in Russia’s Wrangel Island.

This is not the first time polar bears were seen migrating to colder places. In 2019, around 60 polar bears were spotted in one of Russia’s remotest regions of Ryrkaypiy.