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Connect to polar bears on Facebook As part of the World Wildlife Fund's efforts to highlight the plight of polar bears, they created an innovative online game for the Facebook website. Users who sign up to "My Polar Bear" are given an on-screen virtual bear, which has to be cared for by choosing options .......
www.panda.org/polarbears/facebook Svalbard Bears Summer for the Svalbard polar bear is a tough season, they much prefer the winter despite the freezing cold. Climate change is causing the tough times to become worse for the bears. Not only is the melting sea ice causing problems enabling the bears to return to the shore, but is harder for them to find refuge, it shortens their feeding period, resulting in hungry bears. Thus bears have been attracted to human food scraps, something which can prove fatal for a bear. On average three bears have been killed every year since 1993, but only a handful of human deaths from bear attacks have ever been recorded. Conservation work is essential, and World Wide Life adopters support is crucial, please think about adopting a polar bear!
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Bear Magic for Teddy Bears and Soft Toys All rights reserved Freddie and Boris Thursday July 08, 2010
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