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Polar Bears International. Image size 16" x 12"  The regular edition of 100 giclees signed by artist will be available through December 31, 2009 with a portion of the proceeds going to Polar Bears International. The price is $185.00 Available exclusively from Heritage Art & Frames. Stop by, call 907-563-7555 or email us to place your order. Why Polar Bear International? Visit their web site http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/ Polar Bears International is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the worldwide conservation of the polar bear. Their primary goals are to: ~Conserve the world's polar bears through research and education. ~Serve as a central educational resource on polar bears worldwide . ~Promote teamwork and encourage constructive dialogue. ~Build an organization that is international in scope. Why is this important? Visit the Alaska Science Center http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/biology/polar_bears/index.html This excert is from the Alaska Science Centers website... "Polar bears are tied to the sea ice for nearly all of their life cycle functions. Most important of these is foraging, or access to food. Polar bears almost exclusively eat seals, and they are equally as dependent upon the sea for their nutrition as are seals, whales, and other aquatic mammals. Polar bears are not aquatic, however, and their only access to the seals is from the surface of the sea ice. Over the past 25 years, the summer sea ice melt period has lengthened, and summer sea ice cover has declined by over half a million square miles. In winter, although sea ice extent has not changed as greatly, there have been dramatic reductions in the amount of old ice, predominantly in the western Arctic. This loss of stable old ice has set up additional losses of sea ice cover each summer because the thinner younger ice is more easily melted during the recent warmer summers." |
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