Polar Bears – the largest land predator in the world becoming extinct?

United Nations Chronicle Online Edition - a few years ago ... "today we see these magnificent animals stranded on melting ice floes, struggling to stay afloat. They have no time to adapt and could be extinct in a few decades."

UN Chronicle Online ...
see also:
"Climate Change as a Global Challenge: The Adaptation Imperative"
"Climate Change In The Arctic - An Inuit Reality"
"The Climate Change Challenge"
"In This Issue... Green Our World!", from November 2, 2007

“The scientific opinion on climate change, as expressed in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report in 2001 and explicitly endorsed by the national science academies of the G8 nations in 2005, is that the average global temperature has risen 0.6 ± 0.2 °C since the late 19th century, and that it is likely that "most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities" [1].”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

There is considerable controversy about Global Warming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy

In early 2001, three global organizations came together in an integrated promotional partnership to generate awareness for conservation and biodiversity worldwide: the United Nations; the Earth Communications Office (ECO), a non-profit organization that uses the power of communication to improve the global environment; and Animal Planet, a global television brand of Discovery Communications, Inc.