Breaking News: Two Sources

A young Nunavut man was rescued from an iceflow today where he had been trapped. Right now there are different reports on the involvement of a polar bear and its cubs. It seems that there was a body of a polar bear nearby. BBC reports that the young man shot the polar bear and that there were also twin cubs nearby, while CBC hasn't reported this yet:

BBC Article

CBC Article

Bear crosses the road

The Olympic flame convoy was interrupted when a polar bear crossed the road.

My favorite quot from the article: "When you take your kids to school it's the last thing you tell them - look out for bears."

I want to go to Churchill!

Why Spirit Bears Survive

Spirit bears are a race of black bears that have white fur. The recessive white fur gene has survived in the population because the white bears are more efficient at catching fish.

Bald Bears

Bears in a Leipzig zoo are going bald. They think it is because the zoo is in the wrong climate. So sad!

Bear Army?

A bear discovered a Kashmeri militant hideout in its cave, killed two of the militants and injured two more. The militants had AK-46s and ammo in the cave, but that was no match for the bear!

The Indian government has bears on its side?

Hide your children!

The bears are coming to Arviat, Nunavut! Last year, the town filled with an unusually high number of bears during the bear migration, and they are expecting somewhere similar.

This article also gives a bit of insight into bear hunting quotas. In this town, bear hunting is only permitted for "emergency kills" and tags are issued for those kills. I wonder what happens in an "emergency" when they have run out of tags?

Bear Protection

So Canada and Greenland have signed an agreement to form a committee to protect the polar bears in the shared hunting zones in the arctic. I wonder if this includes somehow stopping global warming from destroying the bear's habitat?

This isn't the most exciting bear news, I know. Just bear with me, people!