Residents of Churchill, Man., say it’s time to stop sending motherless young animals to southern zoos. But can they ensure the cubs get the bear necessities?
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Polars bears are descending on Newfoundland and scaring parents
Parents are schooling kids in the risks posed by ursine visitors. Good idea, because the bears may soon be arriving in greater numbers.
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There’s a lot riding on the results of the latest polar bear count
The number of Hudson Bay polar bears comes into question—and another is killed in Newfoundland
The number of polar bears in Hudson Bay is actually much higher than expected and could be growing, according to a survey of the Government of Nunavut. The large aerial survey was conducted in western Hudson Bay, where researchers believe one of the most threatened bear populations live, and counted 1,013 polar bears, significantly more than the 610 other researchers had forecasted, according to the Globe and Mail.
Photo gallery: the flourishing business of polar bear pelts
Take a tour of Fur Harvesters Auction Inc. in North Bay, Ont.
We’re shooting polar bears?!?
International fur buyers are snapping up pelts at record prices. Nicholas Kohler went inside the auction house.
Mother bear endures 9-day swim
Shrinking polar ice fields likely to blame for ordeal
Are they white—or brown?
It doesn’t take a scientist to tell a polar bear and a brown bear apart. Or does it?
High prices leave the polar bear population at risk
In search of big profits, hunters in Quebec are tracking down polar bears at an unsustainable rate
Bearskin sale brings big trouble
Hickey faces up to six U.S. charges, five years in prison