Post by Owen on Dec 11, 2021 1:05:37 GMT
1 ~~~ How the Polar Bear Capital of the World Is Dealing With Climate Change ~~~
Melting ice and rising temperatures are a threat to polar bears and Churchill, the Canadian town that relies
In late fall, hundreds of polar bears gather on the western shore of Canada’s Hudson Bay.
The hungry bears will spend weeks along the snowy shoreline, waiting for sea ice to form on top of cold waters.
When it does, they’ll head out onto the frozen floes for the rest of winter to hunt their main food source: ringed seals.
This annual migration has made nearby Churchill, Manitoba, an ideal destination for thousands of tourists each year who want to witness these bears up close.
Signs leading into the town proclaim it to be “The Polar Bear Capital of the World.”
In October and November, conservation officers patrol the streets day and night, scaring wayward bears out of neighborhoods with loud cracker shells.
Bruins that return are often hauled off to the Polar Bear Holding Facility in an old military hangar on the edge of town—
known by locals as the “polar bear jail”—until they can be released onto the sea ice.
www.cntraveler.com/story/how-the-polar-bear-capital-of-the-world-is-dealing-with-climate-change?
8 December 2021
www.cntraveler.com/?
Melting ice and rising temperatures are a threat to polar bears and Churchill, the Canadian town that relies
In late fall, hundreds of polar bears gather on the western shore of Canada’s Hudson Bay.
The hungry bears will spend weeks along the snowy shoreline, waiting for sea ice to form on top of cold waters.
When it does, they’ll head out onto the frozen floes for the rest of winter to hunt their main food source: ringed seals.
This annual migration has made nearby Churchill, Manitoba, an ideal destination for thousands of tourists each year who want to witness these bears up close.
Signs leading into the town proclaim it to be “The Polar Bear Capital of the World.”
In October and November, conservation officers patrol the streets day and night, scaring wayward bears out of neighborhoods with loud cracker shells.
Bruins that return are often hauled off to the Polar Bear Holding Facility in an old military hangar on the edge of town—
known by locals as the “polar bear jail”—until they can be released onto the sea ice.
www.cntraveler.com/story/how-the-polar-bear-capital-of-the-world-is-dealing-with-climate-change?
8 December 2021
www.cntraveler.com/?