Showing posts with label Polar Bears. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Polar Bears. Show all posts

Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Can you 'bear' to watch this Year 8 ?

An interesting video on the Guardian site for Year 8s.

Connects with work on Polar Bears and the Inuit, and the communities in the Arctic.
It takes you to a place called Churchill.

Churchill in northern Manitoba bills itself as the the polar bear capital of the world and its tourism-based economy depends on it. But as climate change forces the polar bears inland in search of food, attacks on humans are increasing. Can this small community continue to co-exist with the world's largest land predator? 
Suzanne Goldenberg reports from Churchill where its bear alert programme uses guns, helicopters and a polar bear jail to manage the the creatures 

Polar Bears International has more on these creatures, which have become an emblem of global warming due to their reliance on sea ice to patrol their huge territories.