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Cub of Beloved Grizzly Killed by Car as FWS Plans to Delist Yellowstone Bear
2016-06-21 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) proposes to remove the Yellowstone area`s grizzlies from the Endangered Species List, two bears were killed on Sunday evening in separate car accidents in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. According to KTVQ, a CBS affiliate in Billings, Montana, the first bear was a female adult black bear that was hit on U.S. Highway 89 north of the Deadmans Bar Road Junction around 7:30 p.m. The second bear--believed to be the only cub of "399," a popular and...
Close encounters on a bear mountain
2016-05-31 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Sitting in a forest hut for three hours watching a glade fill with shadows tests to the limits all that modern life has made of us, especially our capacities for patience, stillness, silence. Not that I expected the objects of our vigil to reciprocate. On the contrary, brown bears in this park can be 250kg, so I was assuming that they might give warning of their approach: inadvertent rustling perhaps, or anxious alarm calls from nearby birds. Not a bit of it: what was so affecting was how the...
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Barriers between bear species go south as climate change arrives in the Arctic
2016-05-28 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gazette Mail: In the far north, global warming is making for some strange den-fellows, according to a Washington Post article that appeared last week. The Post article, titled Love in the Time of Climate Change, details the hybridization now occurring between polar bears and grizzly bears. While habitat for grizzlies is increasing due to retreating glaciers and thawing permafrost, its the opposite for polar bears, who need sea ice to feed on seals and walruses, but are now spending more time on land than...
Polar bear slaughtered for 50 litres of gasoline
2016-05-28 00:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Siberian Times: Alleged poachers detained after killing animal on Vaygach Island, amid fears up to 15 are illegally shot each year. Experts from environmental organisation WWF say that annually between 10 and 15 polar bears are shot on the island. Picture: Ministry of Internal Affairs Two men were detained and face up to three years in jail if convicted of killing the bear, then trading its skin for gasoline. A resident of Varnek in Nenets Autonomous Region slaughtered the bear last year on Vaygach Island,...
Grizzly bear/polar bear hybrid shot in Canadian North
2016-05-26 08:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Cantech Letter: A Nunavut hunter has killed what many believe to be a grizzly bear/polar bear hybrid, one of only a handful identified during the last decade and another sign of a changing environment in the North. On May 15, Didji Ishalook from Arviat, 250 kilometres north of Churchill, Manitoba, posted photos on social media of the animal and has since been interviewed about the kill, while DNA samples of the bear have been sent to a lab in British Columbia for confirmation. Grizzlies and polar bears have...
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