As a result of global warming, sea ice in the Arctic is melting earlier and forming later each year. Research funded by WWF found that polar bears are left with less time on the ice to hunt for food and build up their fat stores, and increased time on land where they must fast. As their ice habitat shrinks, skinnier and hungrier polar bears face a grave challenge to their survival.

If current warming trends continue unabated, scientists believe that polar bears may disappear within 100 years. WWF funds field research by the world's foremost experts on polar bears to find out how global warming is impacting the long-term condition of polar bears. Near Churchill, Manitoba, WWF-funded scientists go out in helicopters to assess and monitor the Western Hudson Bay polar bear population in relation to long-term changes in condition and reproduction caused by global warming.

WWF is working to stop global warming and help save polar bears and this is my way of contributing in the act of saving the world and my passion, the polar bears.

So welcome.

Tamara