Description

The ice is melting, run for your life! Savethe Polar Bear Kid, avoid the obstacles and reach the highscore!

The primary habitat of polar bears is sea ice. Due to globalwarming, temperatures in the Arctic are increasing at least twotimes as fast as the worldwide average. Aside from that, sea icecover is shrinking by almost 4% per decade. The reductions in seaice thickness and extent affect the ability of polar bears to findfood. Polar bears eat ringed seals and get 2/3 of the energy theyrequire for the whole year in early summer and late spring. Withshorter periods of maximum sea ice extent, polar bears are givenless time to hunt food and forced to go without food for a longerperiod of time.

The changes in sea ice structure and dynamics may differ invarious areas of the Arctic, but all of these have a negativeimpact on the reproductive success and condition of polar bears andtheir kill. Sea ice in James Bay of Canada, for instance, now meltsearlier in the spring and forms at a much later time in autumn.

The best season for polar bears is the time they have on ice.They can hunt fish and seals as well as restore their health andbody fat, but this time for saving energy for the summer seasonwhen there’s little food and ice available is becoming shortertoday. This can negatively affect the overall health and conditionof polar bears. This is an alarming situation for pregnant ornursing bears as well as for the cubs. Young bears can die due toinsufficient amount of fat on nursing mothers or lack of food.

Neon Alien Studios LLC hopes that through the mobile game theyare currently developing, more people will be aware of globalwarming and the threats faced by polar bears because of it and thatmany will be encouraged to do their part in saving these animalsand the planet as a whole.