> no actually, some recent good news about a remote polar bear population came through
Source? Even with short term fluctuations, when the sea ice is gone, polar bears are fucked.
Source? Even with short term fluctuations, when the sea ice is gone, polar bears are fucked.
The thing worth noting here is that this means we’re seeing polar bears as we commonly recognize them still going extinct. What will survive will be an offshoot of them which survives by different means in different environments. So I’m not sure it’s actually good news about polar bears more generally.
The thing we're trying to avoid is a repeat of the Permian–Triassic extinction event, where afterwards Lystrosaurus composed 95% of land vertebrates for millions of years. Domesticated animals already compose a massive proportion of the bird and mammal biomass.