In recent decades, the threat of global warming has captured the attention of the nation and the world. While the mainstream attention began by focusing on the effects this long-term natural crisis would have on the human population, select groups have been working to address the topic in a way that involves prevention to help other plant and animal species around the world. One of these organizations is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has played an important role in the conservation of the polar bear species, one of the mammals most affected by recent climate changes. As more research was conducted on polar bears, scientific name Ursus Maritimus, the conclusions were shocking. In 2008, the Department of the Interior listed the polar bear species as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, giving it some federally mandated protections (Wolfe). However, on January 5, 2011, Congressman Donald Young proposed a bill to Congress to remove polar bears from the threatened species list, diminishing and even reversing conservation efforts put in place over the past three years. Polar bear species should remain listed on the endangered species list because ice thickness has decreased by 40% over the past 30 years thus reducing the critical environment for polar bears. If current conditions continue, polar bear populations worldwide could decline by two-thirds by mid-century, and since the species was protected under the Endangered Species Act, global populations have experienced stabilization or growth in most circumstances. First, the polar bear species should maintain its threatened status......halfway through the paper ......could result in a two-thirds decline in global polar bear populations over the next 50 years and, as the species has been listed as threatened under the Act, has experienced stabilization and in some cases an increase demonstrating the effectiveness of the efforts put in place. All of these reasons, along with myriad others, support the decision to give the species a threatened title, and the arguments against this designation are supported only by faulty values ​​and thinking. As we enter a new technological era, the human population must realize that we create many unwanted effects that resonate in all other species and environments around the world. As the dominant species on earth, humans must do their part to preserve the world's natural environment so that species and important aspects of natural history are not eliminated.