Jennifer Marohasy » Polar Bears

Despite reduced sea ice, polar bears are doing OK.  Numbers are still increasing.  They were low back in the 1960s because polar bears were hunted.  Now they are protected numbers are coming b...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2022/03/polar-bear-update-the-arctic-in-2021/

I wonder how many of the approximately 30,000 ‘special’ people who are on their way to Glasgow for COP26 know that 78 per cent of the atmosphere is made-up of nitrogen. I asked this question ...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2021/10/do-glaswegians-mostly-breathe-nitrogen/

Facts often need context, but in the case of world-wide polar bear numbers it is straight forward: since bans on hunting were introduced in the 1970s numbers have increased from about 10,000 in t...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2021/10/unable-to-see-the-polar-bears-for-the-snow/

This polar bear was raised in the home of Mark Dumas, apparently from the age of six weeks. The post Grizzly Man Swims with Polar Bear appeared first on Jennifer Marohasy .

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2014/07/grizzly-man-swims-with-polar-bear/

FOLLOWING aerial surveys to estimate polar bear numbers, it was recently reported in The Globe and Mail that polar bear population numbers are higher than originally thought: “The number of be...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2012/04/how-many-polar-bears-in-nunavat/

It’s unknown how far the average, white, male, polar bear can swim because they’re always hitching rides on passing ice floes, according to Schiller Thurkettle. The post Second Open Thread...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2010/11/second-open-thread/

How far can the average, white, male, polar bear swim?  PS  This is an open thread, as requested by El Gordo. The post First Open Thread appeared first on Jennifer Marohasy .

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2010/11/first-open-thread/

“MITCHELL Taylor is a Polar Bear researcher who has caught more polar bears and worked on more polar bear groups than any other, but he was effectively ostracized from the Polar Bear Specialist...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2009/09/exile-for-non-believers-polar-bear-expert-told-to-stay-home/

Funny video about Polar Bears. Click here to watch (caution course language). The post Insight into Life in the Arctic appeared first on Jennifer Marohasy .

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2008/12/insight-into-life-in-the-arctic/

THE World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has condemned Nunavut – the most sparsely populated and largest Canadian Territory – for maintaining its polar bear hunt quota threatening that boycotts may foll...

https://jennifermarohasy.com/2008/11/why-campaign-against-hunting-polar-bears/