Known as nanuq in Inuktitut, around 16,000 polar bears live, breed and rule the sea ice as apex predators in the Canadian Arctic — primarily across Nunavut’s two million square kilometres — with subpopulations ranging into the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, Quebec, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Ontario. That’s about two-thirds of the world’s total […] The post How we’re helping conserve polar bears, the Arctic’s apex predator appeared first on WWF.CA.| WWF.CA
WWF’s new Wildlife Tracker offers a glimpse into the everyday lives of polar bears across different parts of the Arctic. It shows the incredible distances some bears travel, the relationship between polar bears and sea ice, and even gives insights into important events, like the first time females emerge from dens with their young cubs. Yet, this […] The post Satellite tracking for polar bear science and conservation appeared first on WWF.CA.| WWF.CA
Polar bears face unprecedented challenges as the climate crisis transforms their Arctic home. With sea ice melting earlier in the year and forming later in the season, polar bear monitoring helps researchers understand how they respond to these changes. This is where WWF’s Wildlife Tracker comes in. The tracker, which has been a valuable tool for showing […] The post Peering in on polar bears: WWF’s Wildlife Tracker has info for researchers (and fun for you) appeared first on WWF.CA.| WWF.CA
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Kaktovik lies at the far northern edge of Alaska’s North Slope region, about 640 miles north of Anchorage (and almost 400 north of Fairbanks). Located on Barter Island and due to its location, is mostly cut off from the rest of the world. Everything – fuel, supplies, infrastructure, needs to be brought in either by plane (to a small, gravel, landing strip) or by barge – of which there are between 1 and 3 a season. It’s just about the farthest northern town in America (Utqiagvik, which...| VC Adventure