Hi John,

Did you know that polar bears have blue tongues? Or that their hair isn't white? It's transparent!

I think polar bears are fascinating and amazingly adapted to life on sea ice. But as the Arctic rapidly warms, their sea ice home is melting away. Their loss of habitat from climate change is the biggest threat to their survival.

Less sea ice means less time for polar bears to find food and greater potential for conflicts with people on land. It also means new passageways and opportunities for industrial development at sea, creating new threats to polar bears. The last thing they need is the added risk of a potential oil spill.

Like so many other threatened species, polar bears need our help urgently.

Act now—on Polar Bear Day—to help keep precious wildlife like polar bears and other species in our world.

When you start your monthly donation and symbolically adopt a polar bear, you'll protect endangered species and their habitats from many threats—and you'll help us reach our goal of 100 Polar Bear Day donors.

Your ongoing support will make a huge difference for wildlife and wild places around the world, every day. You'll feel wonderful about going above and beyond for nature!

You'll be part of a global movement to act on climate change, to reduce conflict between wildlife and people, to protect our forests and the diversity of life around the world. And you'll help build a future where people live in harmony with nature.

Today on International Polar Bear Day, will you be one of 100 generous people to help make our critical conservation work possible by symbolically adopting a polar bear and becoming a monthly member?

Thank you for being a hero for polar bears and for nature worldwide, John.

P.S. Whatever amount you give on Polar Bear Day, your generous monthly support will help protect vulnerable wildlife and nature around the world, and help us hit our goal of 100 donors. Thank you for caring about our planet.

Photo: Polar bear © naturepl.com/Sergey Gorshkov/WWF