Walruses are dependent on sea ice for food. They use it as a platform to reach their feeding grounds. (Photo: Heiner Kubny) The rapidly melting sea ice in the Arctic is exceeding the worst predictions for the future. A new and improved model based on the last warm...
At the trapper station Farmhamna on the west coast of Svalbard, the bear was chased off by the multiple use of flares. But the animal’s visits lasted several days and hardly let the inhabitants sleep. Photo: Farmhamna Svalbard is polar bear land. Around the...
The planned reserve is now one of the most important birthplaces of polar bears in Yakutia. (Photo: Ministry of Ecology) As part of the national project ‘Ecology’, the Bear Island reserve will be created in the Russian Republic of Sacha on the basis of the...