World Wildlife Fund ads are a lie

I just saw a World Wildlife Fund ad on Fox news claiming polar bears are becoming extinct – and will do so in our children’s lifetime.

“If we don’t act now, it could be too late for polar bears – it’s all up to us – please call or go online and give to WWF…” the ad claims.

Fear mongering. It’s shameful.

Most of us would support something like the “world wildlife fund”. After all, who doesn’t like wildlife? But anything as important as the survival of a species deserves an honest vetting. And a group which pretends to be focused on saving wildlife needs to be credible.

Instead, WWF should be sued for false advertising.

Actually, polar bear populations are not declining throughout their range. The total population is about 22,000 and stable. Dr. Mitchell Taylor, a biologist with the government of Nunavut, in Canada's Northwest Territory, says, "Polar bears are not going extinct" and do not even "appear to be affected." In fact, the Nunavut government continues to allow hunters to kill up to 500 polar bears a year to keep populations under control and preserve other wildlife species the bears feed on. According to Taylor, of the 13 separate polar bear populations in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number.

Sea ice loss so far has not meant fewer polar bears, Even a 30 percent decline in the total population of polar bears within 35 to 50 years, as predicted by the polar bear group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, the world's largest conservation network, is not enough to warrant a listing. Such a drop "does not result in a population that is threatened with extinction," they contend.

Polar bears have survived two historic periods of warming and likely can do it again.
Now, should consumers be subject to the World Wildlife Fund’s lies?

So if it is not about saving polar bears, what is it about? WWF is a
soliciting money under false pretenses. It has nothing to do with polar bears, but has everything to do with power and pushing a radical environmental agenda.