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Churchill's famous polar bear migration has ended for the year, but you can view season highlights from our Polar Bear Cam, a joint effort with the Tundra Buggy Adventure. We wish the bears a good year as they scatter to hunt seals on the ice, breaking their months-long fast.
This summer, PBI funded a mapping project of polar bear maternity dens in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)--an important first step in protecting the sensitive areas where polar bears may den. National Geographic photographer Daniel J. Cox took part in the effort and submitted this report.
PBI has assisted in funding a major polar bear population study in the southern Beaufort Sea, a territory that spans Canada and Alaska. Two teams of scientists, one headed by Dr. Steven Amstrup of the U.S. Geological Survey and the other by Dr. Ian Stirling of the Canadian Wildlife Service, are collecting data for the study...