¡Te hará llorar! Conoce la dramática historia de este oso polar (Vídeo)

En un vídeo difundido a través de las redes sociales se conoció horas finales de un oso polar extremadamente demacrado. Las imágenes, filmadas este verano en el Ártico canadiense, fueron compartidas por el fotógrafo Paul Nicklen en su cuenta de Instagram, y rápidamente se viralizaron en todo el mundo.

En la grabación se observa al animal buscando infructuosamente comida en botes de basura abandonados en la desértica e inhóspita isla de Baffin, en el noreste de Canadá.

“Nos quedamos allí llorando, filmando con lágrimas rodando por nuestras mejillas”, dijo a National Geographic. El fotógrafo dijo que quería intervenir pero que no podía hacerlo sin una pistola tranquilizadora o carne de animales con alto contenido de grasa.

“Este gran oso macho no era viejo” y que “indudablemente murió a las pocas horas o días” después de ser filmado en esta condición. “Así se ve el hambre. Los músculos se atrofian. Sin energía. Es una muerte lenta y dolorosa”, escribió Nicklen describiendo el vídeo.

My entire @Sea_Legacy team was pushing through their tears and emotions while documenting this dying polar bear. It’s a soul-crushing scene that still haunts me, but I know we need to share both the beautiful and the heartbreaking if we are going to break down the walls of apathy. This is what starvation looks like. The muscles atrophy. No energy. It’s a slow, painful death. When scientists say polar bears will be extinct in the next 100 years, I think of the global population of 25,000 bears dying in this manner. There is no band aid solution. There was no saving this individual bear. People think that we can put platforms in the ocean or we can feed the odd starving bear. The simple truth is this—if the Earth continues to warm, we will lose bears and entire polar ecosystems. This large male bear was not old, and he certainly died within hours or days of this moment. But there are solutions. We must reduce our carbon footprint, eat the right food, stop cutting down our forests, and begin putting the Earth—our home—first. Please join us at @sea_legacy as we search for and implement solutions for the oceans and the animals that rely on them—including us humans. Thank you your support in keeping my @sea_legacy team in the field. With @CristinaMittermeier #turningthetide with @Sea_Legacy #bethechange #nature #naturelovers This video is exclusively managed by Caters News. To license or use in a commercial player please contact info@catersnews.com or call +44 121 616 1100 / +1 646 380 1615”

A post shared by Paul Nicklen (@paulnicklen) on Dec 5, 2017 at 8:52am PST

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