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In 2019, Holly
the grizzly bear won a glamorous award when staff at Alaska's
Katmai National Park declared her the winner of Fat Bear Week.
Holly's delightful girth is actually a critical part of her
survival — specifically, making it through the brutally cold
winters while she and her brethren are hibernating. Amazingly,
she will burn up one-third of her body mass by the time she
emerges in the spring. But, unlike Holly, countless other bears in
nearby Canada are likely to starve to death this coming
winter, and all because of climate change.
Canada is warming at
twice the global average speed. Climate change has
particularly ravaged salmon runs, decimating a key food supply
that grizzlies need in order to stay alive. The situation is
so dire that volunteers have manually delivered hundreds of
pounds of salmon to areas where bears are starving, in the
hopes that wildlife will feast on the fish in time to fatten
them up before they hibernate. But this is clearly not a
long-term solution. Canada needs to get serious about
curbing emissions and saving species threatened by climate
change! Sign the petition to demand that the province of
British Columbia and Canadian federal officials create an
action plan to save bears and salmon before it's too
late.
Thank you for all that you do,
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Miranda
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The Care2 Petitions Team |
P.S. Canada's
grizzlies are in crisis. Tell officials to create a plan to save the
salmon runs that grizzlies rely on to survive!
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