What To Do When There’s a Polar Bear in Your Backyard

What happens when ice bears start losing their ice?

They get stuck on land and they get hungry.

When polar bears can't find good food to eat,

they'll fill up on junk food.

And for polar bears, junk  food is human food.

This is a rising safety concern for humans.

After working and living off and on with polar bears for over 12 years,

I know coexisting with them can be a challenge,

and it will only get more challenging

as climate change forces our species to increasingly overlap.

Polar Bears International is working on innovative technologies

that could help provide longer lead times

between when polar bears and people meet

or prevent them from meeting altogether.

Just one example,

GPS tracking.

It can tell us where, when and why polar bears move.

It's critical data.

The number one most important coexistence tool we have

is our willingness to cut carbon emissions

and stop trapping so much heat in our atmosphere.

The faster we switch to cleaner energies,

the better we can protect future  generations of polar bears and people.