They're considered talented swimmers and spend more than half their time hunting for food—mainly seals. Expansion of oil and gas drilling in their habitat would devastate the species should a spill occur. Contact with spilled oil would kill polar bears and impact the entire food web of the Arctic ecosystem.
Drilling of oil and gas in the Artic can lead to spills and disasters. if a spill was to occur many animals on land and the ocean would suffer horribly. it would impact the entire ecosystem of the artcic.
