Polar Bear Swim 2025 is on Saturday, January 18, 2025: Polar Bears?

Saturday, January 18, 2025 is Polar Bear Swim 2025. A polar bear plunge is an event held during the winter where participants enter a body of water despite the low temperature.

A polar bear plunge is an event held during the winter where participants enter a body of water despite the low temperature.

Polars bears are endangered, even though technically I don't think the world powers have not officially put them on the endangered species list yet. They are endangered because their habitat is disappearing because of global warming. Polar bears get their food by living at the edge of the sea ice, many miles from land, and swimming to hunt seals. Traditionally the sea ice lasted long enough each year that the bears were able to get through the short summers on the amount of food they ate during the rest of the year. However, now every year the sea freezes later and melts earlier so the feeding opportunities are getting less and less. Therefore polar bears are hungry when the sea ice is gone and often become threats to communities. I saw a polar bear shot because he was endangering children in a northern community who were on their way to school in the morning - there was no choice - it was the bear or a couple of kids.

These links have good information and I believe you have quite a few links in your previous question. Best of luck with it.

How far can Polar Bears Swim?

The attached site about polar bears is very interesting. It says that it is unknown how far a polar bear can swim but a distance of 100 miles is no big deal. Wow!!!

are polar bears being affected by global warming?

Polar bears are listed as threatened/vulnerable

Denier's continue to post fiction on this subject quoting booms in numbers and comments about how well they can swim (the bears not the denier's) the facts are that any reading of the actual science (instead of denier blogs) would show that the problems bears face are in the future as the Arctic continues to decline, comments that the Arctic is not declining are pure fiction.

Polar Bears have made a recovery since wholesale hunting of them was seriously decreased in the 70s under international treaty other than man and other Bears they have no natural enemy in the wild so the increase in their numbers is pretty easy to explain. The basics of how they hunt seals is easy to find if you look they (for the most part) ambush Seals on the ice as they emerge from the sea or are resting. Anyone with even a little knowledge of Seals and Polar Bears should be able to understand that in the water Polar Bears are quite poor swimmers compared to Seals. The logic of shrinking ice and what that will mean for hunting Polar Bears, is obvious cause and effect.

(CYW NEIL OWEN) There are no Polar Bears in the Antarctic, they only live in the Arctic.