Habitat
Polar bears’ home is on the sea ice. They
are found in five nations across the Artic: the U.S. (Alaska), Greenland,
Russia, Canada, and Norway (Svalbard). Because the sea is so vast and is
always changing their home range can be enormous. This range depends on the
quality of the sea ice and the availability of their seal prey.
Ice
is the primary hunting habitat of the polar bears, thus why climate change
is affecting them so severely. The ice surface is slowly melting away,
leaving them with little space to stand.
References:
Habitat (2022). Polar Bears International [online]. Available from: https://polarbearsinternational.org/polar-bears-changing-arctic/polar-bear-facts/habitat/ [Accessed 03 November 2022]