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By SUMAN NAISHADHAM
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Polar bears in Canadas Western Hudson Bay on the southern edge of the Arctic are continuing to die in high numbers, a new government survey of the land carnivore has found. Females and bear cubs are having an especially hard time.
Researchers surveyed Western Hudson Bay home to Churchill, the town called the Polar Bear Capital of the World, by air in 2021 and estimated there were 618 bears, compared to the 842 in 2016, when they were last surveyed.
The actual decline is a lot larger than I would have expected, said Andrew Derocher, a biology professor at the University of Alberta who has studied Hudson Bay polar bears for nearly four decades. Derocher was not involved in the study.
https://apnews.com/article/science-arctic-polar-bears-hudson-bay-climate-and-environment-efd19bb16967dd058b2ea39f9d676dd0?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_09
And then in this country we have (I'm Concerned Susan Collins) filing a lawsuit of long lines used to trap lobsters entangling the North Atlantic Right Whales whereby there are about 750 of that whale species left....and I have been to Churchill Canada back in the day....like 1962 and saw these magnificent creatures just eating salmon like there was no tomorrow.....now.... there is no tomorrow for them.....
flying_wahini
(7,939 posts)They can drill with impunity.
SharonClark
(10,251 posts)Humans can do the right thing with wildlife if they cared.
wendyb-NC
(3,734 posts)What a senseless, tragic loss.