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Churchill problem bears and early breakup dates in WHB: The 1983 & 2004...
In this part of my critique of Stirling and Parkinson (2006), regarding breakup dates in Western Hudson Bay (see Part I here), I will show that these authors also left out critical data. Figure 1. A...
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Hudson Bay sea ice well above average – excellent early December polar bear...
Sea ice development for this date is well above average on Hudson Bay – even more so than last week – making three years in a row of average-to-above average ice habitat available to polar bears in...
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Polar bear news: 1st fat bear ashore in WHB, trouble in S. Greenland, and...
Last week, among other events, the first fat polar bear of the season was photographed on shore in Western Hudson Bay, a fat bear was run out of town in South Greenland, and media outlets spread...
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Keeping track of problem bears in Churchill
The City of Churchill has recently taken to posting its problem bear reports on its Facebook page. This is something to keep an eye on, so let’s catch up so that future reports can be put into context....
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Well-fed polar bears onshore at height of summer easily deterred by noise,...
From the CBC this morning, we have the report of a female polar bear and her cub paying a visit to an Nunavut campsite near Chesterfield Inlet in northwestern Hudson Bay, which is technically within...
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Churchill problem polar bear report for 14-20 September 2015
Latest report on problem bears in Churchill, Manitoba, from the town’s Facebook page. See previous post here for map and background. Last week’s report here. Photo above: A bear is transported to...
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Activist explorer blames more polar bear encounters since 1985 on reduced sea...
Activist polar explorer Børge Ousland’s told National Geographic that more polar bear encounters on land are due to reduced sea ice – without any reference to population changes over that time or...
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Churchill problem polar bear report for 13-18 October 2015
Latest report on problem bears in Churchill, Manitoba, from the town’s Facebook page. Polar Bear Alert Program Activity Report as of Oct. 19 (click to enlarge): 30 polar bears handled to date this...
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W Hudson Bay polar bears now on the ice hunting but killer whales could be...
According to reports from folks on the ground in Western Hudson Bay, most polar bears were out on the ice resuming seal hunting by the 20th or 21st November at the latest (some got started quite a bit...
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Some polar bears make poor choices, like this one in James Bay
CBC reported this morning that a polar bear was shot last Friday (18 December) at the dump in Moose Factory, Ontario – long past the date when bears in Southern Hudson Bay are usually out on the ice....
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Horse killed by a polar bear in southern Greenland this week
“Until Wednesday, Malik Frederiksen owned nine horses at his property in southern Greenland. After an attack by a polar bear, he now owns eight.” So begins an article published in The Arctic Journal...
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More Churchill polar bear captures due to increased vigilance not global warming
Polar bear specialists just don’t get it: virtually no one except the ever-gullible media believes their exaggerated stories of doom. Yet they keep trying and with every lie and misrepresentation of...
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Polar bears onshore in winter – will more bears mean more deadly attacks?
Incidents of polar bears causing problems onshore this winter (January & February) – including one that killed a horse in Greenland and another that threatened a resident in western Hudson Bay...
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Polar bear visits Newfoundland community of Goose Cove
Goose Cove on the Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland, had a polar bear visitor onshore yesterday. That’s typical for this region at the this time of year. The bear wasn’t seen, reported the...
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RCMP shot fearless polar bear that came ashore on Fogo Island, Newfoundland
Just look at the polar bear on the cover of my new novel (right sidebar) and image that bear coming towards you with no intention of stopping. That’s what a Newfoundland RCMP officer faced yesterday –...
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Tracking polar bears in the Beaufort Sea and the issue of open water in May
A map posted by USGS shows that the 13 polar bears with tags or collars tracked during April 2016 in the Beaufort Sea were down to 9 in May (7 females with collars, 2 subadult or adult males with...
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Sea ice habitat Canada update for 23 July 2016 vs. 2014 & the start of bear...
Sea ice breakup is always a little bit different year to year but since I have the maps archived, take a look at the differences and similarities at this date for this year compared to 2014… Is there...
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Most polar bears easily deterred this time of year, lucky Labrador boaters...
A polar bear female accompanied by a cub recently attempted to board a small sailboat anchored in a remote harbour off central Labrador – giving the two American boaters below deck a mighty big...
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Add human graves to the list of things that attract polar bears to communities
A report last week that a polar bear dug a human cadaver out of a coffin buried in the cemetery on the west coast of Hudson Bay did not get the media attention it perhaps deserved: it takes the term...
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The polar bear problem no one will talk about – the downside to large...
A large polar bear population with lots of adult males – due to bans on hunting – means more survival pressure on young bears, especially young males. To blame more problems with young male bears on...
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