Polar Bear Blog – Polar Bear Family and Me and My Review
Well, I got a few emails yesterday about the footage of ‘Polar Bear Family & Me’ and Polar Bear International’s response to it – specifically the blog post by Polar Bear researchers Steven Amstrup,...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – Polar Bear Iconics
Well, I just read a post by Gord Buchanan from BBC’s Polar Bear Family and Me… it seems after Polar Bears International’s scathing review maybe he is working to show his love for bears. I mean I...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – Let’s Feed The Bears (Some More)
So, I have seen this idea come up here and there… most recently, it started with Robert Buchanan from Polar Bears International and now with one of his researchers, Andrew Derocher. The idea is to feed...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – Never Look Zac Unger In The Eye
Well, I finally finished reading Zac Unger’s new book ‘Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye’. Its a decent read, pretty good for someone’s first trip to the north… ‘Google Play’ is a terrible e-reader...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – The Complicated World of CITES
We are entering the final stretch of the battle to list the polar bear among one of the world’s most endangered species. The polar bear was ‘upgraded’ to threatened in 2008. Based on, the justification...
View ArticlePolar 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...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – State of the Western Hudson Bay Polar Bears
Well, its International Polar Bear Day whatever that means… there’s some NGOs promoting eco-solutions and that’s good, personally I prefer the ‘Stink For The Bears’ campaign that asks everyone not to...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – Green Dots, Sunny Days and Dark Clouds
A bit of a round-up today… CITES Listing Upgrade Voted Down – The polar bear will not be upgraded to Appendix 1 Listing… in the end, the European Union ended up abstaining from the vote and without...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – Camp Nanuq Morning
It seems like I haven’t blogged from Camp Nanuq forever (actually just last bear season, I guess…). Camp Nanuq is a little cabin area, twenty kilometres east of Churchill. There are three lakes out...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – Gettin’ Busy
Gettin’ busy might be the wrong words, September sounds like it was already pretty eventful in terms of bears. Sounds like there have already been 17 bears handled and placed in jail this year. One...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – Bear Season Notes
A few bears are starting to move. We had three bears at Bird Cove today, including one male who kind of waffled between overly curious and duly cautious; pretty neat to watch his learning curve around...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – Churchill Bear Incident
There was a serious bear incident this morning in Churchill and I have kind of noticed that the news reports have changed a bit through the day, so here is the Churchill version as best as we can...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – Bears Everywhere
So, yesterday morning, we opened the door to a young male bear running towards us. It was quite the surprise, a crazy morning. This one is a lot more like a ‘bear season’ morning – there was a bear...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – An Open Letter to Manitoba
At the end of this season, I found myself on a full-on out-of-my-mind rant to two people that should and, essentially, are on the same side of the environmental spectrum as I am. While I would never...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – After Bear Season
Things settle into a bit of hibernation mode up here once the bears and tourists leave. There is enough sea ice on the bay now to make for crystal clear days and pastel sunrises and, of course, the...
View ArticlePolar Bear Blog – Moose Bits and Wolverines
Lots of folks are out moose hunting now, either north of Churchill around North River delta, south near Twin Lakes or up the hydro line. Hunting season, of course, means gut pile season too and that’s...
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