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Polar Bear Blog – Open Water in Churchill
Well, I am back from a quick trip to Churchill and the cabin and non-blogging – for some reason, I stopped blogging while I was actually IN Churchill… oh well. Either way, spring has arrived along Hudson Bay with swans and geese swarming Churchill last week. Pacific Loons have settled back into the lake at Camp Nanuq and even White-crowned Sparrows, Bonapartes Gulls and Long-tailed Ducks are picking their spots. Male Ptarmigan were in pitched … Continue reading
Posted in Beluga Whales, Camp Nanuq, Canadian Arctic, Cape Churchill, Churchill Manitoba News, Churchill Polar Bears, Climate Change and Polar Bears, Polar Bear News, Polar Bears of Churchill
Tagged arctic sea ice, churchill manitoba, churchill polar bears, churchill river, hudson bay, polar bear alley, polar bear blog, polar bears, polar bears of churchill, sea ice hudson bay
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Polar Bear Blog – Blame Canada
Well, it seems to be a familiar theme these days but Canada seems to be the polar bear ‘bad guy’ again. Nikita Osyanikov, a polar bear researcher from Russia, is quoted in the media and saying the Russian polar bear hides are often tagged as ‘Canadian’ so that they can be legally sold. You see, polar bear hunting in Russia has been banned since, I believe, 1957 – part of their initial moves to conserve … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Arctic, Churchill Manitoba News, Churchill Polar Bears, Climate Change and Polar Bears, Polar Bear News, Polar Bears of Churchill
Tagged arctic bear, churchill polar bears, CITES listing, polar bear, polar bear alley, polar bear blog, polar bear habitat, polar bear sport hunt, polar bear tours, russia polar bears, sea ice tour
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Polar Bear Blog – We Learned Something About Bears!
Another new polar bear/sea ice study is out and this one is actually pretty good. Like, I actually learned something from reading it. I mean this study is actually about bears!!! Here is a link to the paper – it comes from the University of Alberta, authored by Seth Cherry with Derocher, Thiemann and Lunn. It takes an in-depth look at just when females bears (the only ones they can follow with radio collars) come … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Arctic, Churchill Manitoba News, Climate Change and Polar Bears, Polar Bear News, Polar Bears of Churchill
Tagged churchill manitoba, churchill polar bears, hudson bay, polar bear alley, polar bear blog, polar bear research, polar bears international, polar bears of churchill, survival of the fattest
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Polar Bear Blog – Frozen Planet
Well, we are just entering the most critical time of year for polar bears. Many cubs have emerged from the dens and seal hunting season is just beginning. We should have some pics from of new cubs soon but our friend from Watchee Lodge took 11,000 pictures so… it might take a while to sort through them. Judging from the spike in my site visits, it also appears that its arctic documentary season, I think … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Arctic, Churchill Manitoba News, Climate Change and Polar Bears, Polar Bear News, Polar Bears of Churchill
Tagged arctic, churchill manitoba, churchill polar bears, frozen planet, hudson bay, polar bear alley, polar bear blog, polar bears of churchill, sea ice, western hudson bay polar bears
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Polar Bear Blog – The Great Bear
An Inuit legend as retold in arctic explorer Knud Rasmussen’s 1921 journals… A woman ran away from her home because her child had died. On her way she came to a house. In the passageway, there lay skins of bears. And she went in. And now it was revealed that the people who lived in there were bears in human form. Yet for all that, she stayed with them. One big bear used to go … Continue reading
Polar Bear Blog – Good News From Wapusk
Well, we are only a week into ‘cub season’ at Watchee Lodge in Wapusk National Park but initial reports are pretty positive. We have some clients in there and so far, the people down at Watchee have seen mothers and cubs every day and even a female with triplets. So, after a couple of quieter years, this one has kicked off with a bang. Even temperatures seem to have cooperated, it is still cold but … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Arctic, Cape Churchill, Churchill Manitoba News, Climate Change and Polar Bears, Polar Bear News, Polar Bears of Churchill
Tagged churchill polar bears, mothers and cubs, Parks Canada, polar bear alley. churchill manitoba, polar bear blog, polar bears international, polar bears of churchill, wapusk national park, watchee lodge, western hudson bay
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Polar Bear Blog – Confessions of a Buggy Driver Pt.2
Approximately eight minutes after my introduction to Churchill, Tundra Buggy Ken asked if I could work that day. Ken appeared as this ageless white-haired guy in a Tundra Buggy fleece. He had a nicely trimmed mustache, drank a lot of coffee and liked to gossip. He also had this crazy dry delivery where you could never tell if he was serious or if he was teasing you or really what was going on. So, naturally, … Continue reading
Posted in Bear Season, Churchill Manitoba News, Polar Bear News, Polar Bears of Churchill, Tundra Buggy
Tagged bear season, churchill manitoba, churchill polar bears, polar bear alley, polar bear blog, polar bear capital of the world, polar bear tours, polar bears of churchill, tundra buggy
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Polar Bear Blog – Killer: the Story of a Bear
Well, usually I stick with written email replies with journalists but I made en exception this week with Margaret Wente of the Globe and Mail. Her article came out today and, well, in the media, things get condensed and sometimes the message gets a little garbled. Anyway, it was a pretty good skype chat about Churchill and bears, Zac Unger, Derocher and all that cast of characters. But, my entire point was that if things … Continue reading
Posted in Bear Season, Cape Churchill, Churchill Manitoba News, Climate Change and Polar Bears, Polar Bear Alert, Polar Bear News, Polar Bears of Churchill, Tundra Buggy
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