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The Inuit Point of View on Polar Bears

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Here's an article in the Nunatsiaq News that talks about polar bear conservation from the Inuit point of view. The Inuit harvest, or hunt, polar bears in Canada. "In But not with polar bears." Tags: indigenous hunting canada inuit polar bear.

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US Groups Fight to Save Polar Bear Hunts

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Supposedly, environmentalists and animal rights activists have "unfairly made the polar bear into 'the panda bear of North America.'" Tags: canada blood sport polar bear hunting trophy hunting endangered species. insert crying baby picture here.) Here's the article from the Globe and Mail.

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On the Edge.

10,000 Birds

The tracks of two young Polar Bear skirt a crack in the sea ice in Admiralty Inlet. Wildlife concentrates at the Floe Edge, and although we just missed Narwhal as pack ice moved in just after we arrived, the place was littered with Polar Bear. Still, with that many bear you have to stay vigilant.

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Calgary Zoo Feeling Economic Pressure

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They had to cancel a big project that would have showcased polar bears and seals. Lanthier, a veterinarian and walrus researcher who took the helm in Calgary two years ago, says the cancellation of the polar bears exhibit might please some animal-rights extremists, but the reality is a blow to Canada's white bears.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second Weekend of February 2012)

10,000 Birds

Not likely, right? I found myself on the shore of Lake Ontario on the most bitter day of this mild winter to observe over 1,700 maniacs take a Polar Bear Plunge. This weekend, the annual Grammy awards along with the unscheduled and untimely demise of a pop icon ensured that music dominated wide interest.

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Disneynature Earth Q&A

4 The Love Of Animals

Inevitably, it’s a situation where you were there, and for me, it’s the swimming male polar bear. When you see a dying male polar bear and you’ve been with that animal for a long time, it is hard. It’s where we filmed all the polar bear material. Fothergill: It’s very hard.

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Frozen Planet

4 The Love Of Animals

We loved seeing penguins, whales, polar bears, and wolves. The 3 disc set includes many special features: • On Thin Ice – A unique exploration into how climate change is affecting the animals and people of the polar regions and what that might mean for the rest of us. Some of it is quiet funny as well.