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Never look a polar bear in the eye

13th June 201326th November 2015 Louise Jack

Welcome to Churchill, Manitoba. Year-round population: 943. Despite the isolation and the freezing cold at the arctic’s edge, visitors from around the globe flock to the town every autumn, driven by a single purpose: to see polar bears in the wild. For six weeks in October and November, this little town of nine hundred people […]

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Polar Bears : the natural history of a threatened species

17th November 201217th November 2016 Louise Jack

No animal is more symbolic of the Arctic than the Polar Bear. The Arctic is not a frozen wasteland to a polar bear; it is home, and a comfortable home at that. For thousands of years, the climate, the ice, and the seals upon which it feeds have shaped and finely tuned the evolution of […]

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