When photographer Paul Nicklen and filmmakers from conservation group Sea Legacy arrived on Somerset Island—near the larger Baffin Island—in the Canadian Arctic in late summer, they came across a heartbreaking sight: a starving polar bear on its deathbed.
Nicklen is no stranger to bears. From the time he was a child growing up in Canada’s far north the biologist turned wildlife photographer has seen over 3,000 bears in the wild. But the emaciated polar bear, featured in videos Nicklen published to social media on December 5, was one of the most gut-wrenching sights he’s ever seen.
“We stood there crying—filming with tears rolling down our cheeks,” he said.
Video shows the polar bear clinging to life, its white hair limply covering its thin, bony frame. One of the bear’s back legs drags behind it as it walks, likely due to muscle atrophy. Looking for food, the polar bear slowly rummages through a nearby trashcan used seasonally by Inuit fishers. It finds nothing and resignedly collapses back down onto the ground.
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fuk illegal feed the bloody thing ffs
feed him have some feelings
My heart is breaking… we have done so much damage to life on this earth.
You know what else is “Illegal”? Contributing to the extinction of wildlife by inaction.
“Oh, poor thing, let me take a picture instead of actually helping out.”
Face it. you make your money off the death of animals every day. you say “Oh, we only take pictures, we don’t interfere”…yet you live in a world that interferes with nature every fuckin’ day. How convenient that you can pick and choose which animals deserve to be helped, and whicch ones deserve to be exterminated for living in the walls of your house, built on land that used to belong to wildlife until greedy, selfish human beings came along and fucked it all up.
Don’t bitcch to me or anyone else about your “emotional state”. You could have bought fish, dumped it, and gave this animal enough energy to maybe find some food on it’s own, but, naw, y’all stood around with your thumb up your asses taking pictures instead so you could make a buck or two off of the suffering of animals.
Fuck your moral dilemma bullshit. you don’t have any morals, because if you did, it wouldn’t be a dilemma, you’d have done something about it.
*Mic drop*