- Wild Polar Bear population highest in six decades.

Polar bear populations were predicted to suffer due to global warming. It appears that someone neglected to inform the polar bears.

According to the World Wildlife Foundation, polar bears "are the poster child for the implications of climate change on species, and with good reason," according to its website. Photographs of polar bears on ice islands that are melting are meant to be ominous predictions about the state of the earth. "Polar bears truly are starving due of global warming, study indicates," read the headline of a National Geographic article published in 2018.  Sound familiar?  "More tigers in Texas than in the wild, polar bears will be gone in just a few years, and the world will melt away soon,....."

The constant discourse about the end of the world has just one flaw. It is untrue. Since decades, polar bear populations have typically been rising. The number of polar bears worldwide increased from approximately 12,000 in 1965 to an estimated 26,000 last year, as author Bjorn Lomborg recently explained. Positive trends are definitely on the rise.

Unrelated to climate, one of the main causes of this population rise. The five nations with the greatest concentration of polar bears formed a treaty to restrict polar bear hunting in the middle of the 1970s. As a result, from over 1,000 annually in the late 1960s to just under 700 now, polar bears were harvested less frequently. Although saving 300 polar bears annually may not seem like much, when expressed as a percentage, it is a sizeable sum.

Even those who are worried about global warming could learn something from this. Results are a result of both temperature variations on Earth and how adaptable people and animals are. Encourage anyone who want to take action to lessen the harvest of polar bears to do so if you care about the creatures. Humans can survive and adapt to climate change if polar bears can.