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Furthermore, part of its sales proceeds go towards Polar Bears International in Canada to help further the conservation and protection efforts for polar bears.

Frontiers North Adventures is a platinum sponsor for Polar Bears International “Our mission is to ensure the polar bears long-term survival – and we invite you to join us on this journey. Together, we can make sure that the polar bears roam the sea ice for generations to come and improve conditions for people too. After all, the polar bear’s future is not separate from our own. Their story is our story. And as a visitor to Churchill, and a citizen of the world, you too, are a part of this story.”

The findings appear in line with other recent studies of changes in the region. A report published last month by the nonprofit conservation group Polar Bears International found that the thickness of Arctic sea ice in some areas has thinned by more than 6 feet since the middle of the 20th century.

"What we have seen is an increase in intensity (of encounters) and increased occurrences in places where polar bears don't normally occur," study co-author Geoff York, a researcher with Polar Bears International, told The Globe and Mail

In the new study, the researchers described six case studies that showed above-average (and occasionally deadly) polar bear encounters with Arctic communities in the United States, Canada and Russia. In each town or community, the number of polar bear sightings has increased steadily over the past several years or decades, leading to some dicey situations.

“Bears don’t know all the negatives that come with plastic ingestion and the diseases and toxins they’re likely exposed to in a (landfill) setting,” Geoff York, study co-author and senior director of conservation at Polar Bears International, said.

Report co-author Geoff York said the danger to polar bears is twofold.

One is the increased conflict between polar bears and humans, he said, which killed the bears. The second danger is that bears eat unhealthy food, said York, senior director of conservation at Polar Bears International.

"Bears don't know all the negatives that come with plastic ingestion and the diseases and toxins they're likely exposed to in a (landfill) setting," said co-author Geoff York, senior director of conservation at Polar Bears International, an advocacy group.

Report co-author Geoff York said the danger to polar bears is twofold.

One is the increased conflict between polar bears and humans, he said, resulting in the bears being killed. The second danger is that bears are eating unhealthy foods, said York, a senior director of conservation at Polar Bears International.

Sea ice loss appears to be harming certain bears more than others, and the impacts of climate change differ depending on where they occur. Polar Bears International (PBI) indicates that changes in polar bear physical condition, survival, and abundance have been connected to sea ice conditions.

For example, the number of polar bears in western Hudson Bay peaked at 1,200 in the 1980s but has since declined to 842. PBI reports that bear populations in Southern Hudson Bay have decreased by 17% since 2012 and that a longer ice-free season is also associated with better body conditions.

We have two cameras streaming from both above and below the deck of Polar Bears International’s Beluga Boat, so you can watch the white whales from overhead (don’t forget to look for polar bears on the coast!) and underwater, often with grey babies in tow.

The Beluga Cam and our efforts on the Churchill River also support beluga research. Like most Arctic species, beluga whales are difficult and expensive to study due to their remote habitat. The Beluga Cam feeds into the Beluga Bits citizen science project, a collaboration between the Assiniboine Park Conservancy, explore.org, and Polar Bears International, which asks people to capture and classify screenshots from the Beluga Cam.

In celebration of Arctic Sea Ice Day on July 15, both Mini USA and Polar Bears International will highlight creative that features a polar bear riding in the passenger seat of a 2023 MINI Electric Cooper SE. Mini USA AOR Pereira O’Dell led the development of the creative.

The livestream, produced in a partnership between Arctic conservation nonprofit Polar Bears International and explore.org, is in celebration of Arctic Sea Ice Day on July 15. The goal is to raise public interest in sea ice and increase awareness of its importance to the Arctic ecosystem.

"It is to the ocean what soil is to the forest," Alysa McCall, the director of conservation outreach and staff scientist at Polar Bears International, told Live Science.

Support the Arctic Documenatry Project (ADP) that Daniel J. Cox adminisiters under the nonprofit umbrella of Polar Bears International. All of Daniel’s time and efforts are donated to PBI, for the ADP, free of charge. The funds donated to the Arctic Documentary Project are used to document the changes taking place in the Arctic with both stills and video. These materials help PBI tell the story of the changes taking place in the Arctic. The images in this blog post were all produced by the ADP.

To celebrate Earth Day, Disney+ released Polar Bear, the latest documentary from Disneynature, the studio behind Earth, Oceans, and Penguins. Like previous Disneynature documentaries, there is a light plot that drives the film, as we follow a mother polar bear preparing her cubs to venture out on their own in the world. But the main appeal here is getting to watch polar bears hang out for a couple of hours, while getting some quality narration from two-time Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener. It's like getting to take an Arctic vacation without having to leave your couch. If you are a fan of gorgeous nature documentaries, Polar Bear is just what you're looking for.

The London Project says it is an advocate for the protection of the bears through its ongoing support to Polar Bears International, a non-profit conservation organisation. Throughout summer, guests visiting the venue could be randomly gifted a symbolic eco-adoption certificate of cubs or adult polar bears.

In terms of travel, “for a polar bear, that’s nothing,” says Steven Amstrup. He’s a zoologist who was not involved in the study. But he knows these bears; he’s chief scientist of the conservation organization Polar Bears International, based in Bozeman, Mont. “Apparently,” he says, those southeast Greenland bears are “finding enough resources there that they don’t have to make these huge, big movements.”
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It’s not entirely surprising that polar bears have settled at the fronts — or toes — of glaciers in the fjords, Amstrup says. “Oftentimes, the toes of these glaciers are very productive areas,” he says, meaning rich sources of food. Glacial meltwater can flush nutrients from deeper in the ocean up toward the water’s surface. This can draw fish to the area. Seals that go out to feed on these fish, he suspects, might end up as a bear’s dinner.

Scientists predict that as climate change reshapes the Arctic, glaciers in fjords will remain intact longer than sea ice, potentially creating refugia—temporary holdouts amid unfavorable living conditions—for species such as polar bears that rely on ice for hunting.

But that doesn’t mean the “salvation of polar bears,” explains Steven Amstrup, chief scientist at the conservation organization Polar Bears International and former director for 30 years of Alaskan polar bear research at the United States Geological Survey.
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Amstrup hopes the research “will encourage scientists and managers to do some surveys of where else in the Arctic” glaciers could help polar bears hold on longer.
“If anything, this study really is another piece of evidence of the fundamental relationship between polar bears and ice-covered water,” he says. “Do they really care if that ice is fresh water or salt water? Probably not, as long as there are seals underneath it.”

Populations isolated by genetic mutations are often more vulnerable from an evolutionary standpoint, according to Steven Amstrup, chief scientist for Polar Bears International at National Geographic. And, in addition, he left a prediction: in the future it will be more and more common for new fragmentations of bears to arise, due to the new climatic conditions.

Whether polar bears use sea ice or ice from glaciers, "the general contours of the story are the same — climate change melt and ice retreat," said John Whiteman, chief research scientist at Polar Bears International. Whiteman was not involved in the new study.