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Archive for December, 2009
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009Center for Biological Diversity
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009Kassie Siegel, Director, Climate Law Institute for the Center for Biological Diversity has travelled with us twice to see the polar bears of Churchill, the second time being this past autumn. Kassie was also a part of PBI’s Tundra Connections panel on Tundra Buggy One. She has written and reflected about her experience while making her way to Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change conference.
Click here to read about her time in Churchill. You can also see Kassie here as she participated in November Tundra Connections webcasts on Tundra Buggy One!
Images ©Brendan Cummings
Holiday Cheer
Saturday, December 19th, 2009Check out the amazing gingerbread house that one of our guests made for the holidays. We particularly love the polar bear cookies alongside the Tundra Buggy! Great work Andrea! You have some serious talent. Happy Holidays everyone!
Shared Experiences
Friday, December 18th, 2009Here are some great images sent to us by Nigel Hazelden. He travelled to Churchill at the beginning of November to view the Hudson Bay polar bears. Again, if you have any photos from our adventures you would like to share, please email them to us at: website@frontiersnorth.com.
All images ©Nigel Hazelden
The Circle
Thursday, December 17th, 2009The Circle is a new magazine published four times a year by the WWF International Arctic Programme. The goal of the magazine is to inform decision-makers, scientists and the interested public about arctic environmental and development issues. It is distributed to over 3,000 arctic stakeholders worldwide, including government officials and publicly-elected representatives, indigenous organisations, conservationists, scientists, NGOs, libraries, and business executives.
In the latest edition, our partnership with PBI and WWF, along with our Tundra Buggy One is featured. Click on the image below to view the latest edition of The Circle!
New Protected Areas in Manitoba
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Manitoba has announced two new protected Wildlife Management Areas in the province. The Kaskatamagan Wildlife Management Area is 259,530 hectares and is home to the western Hudson Bay sub-population of polar bears and caribou. The Kaskatamagan Sipi Wildlife Management Area protects 133,820 hectares of wilderness in the boreal Arctic tundra transition zone and is recognized as a globally significant bird area.
It has been estimated these two protected areas alone store approximately 179 million tonnes of carbon in their peatlands and soil. This is equivalent to 656 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, the same as the emissions from the entire province of Manitoba for 30 years.
Congratulations to Robert Buchanan
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009We would like to extend a huge congratulations to Polar Bears International President and CEO Robert Buchanan for being awarded the 2010 George B. Rabb Conservation medal from the Chicago Zoological Society! Robert and PBI are recognized for their role in helping people understand the importance of polar bears and their habitat and empowering individuals to have a sense of immediacy about how we take care of the planet.
Click on the image below to read the official announcement from the Chicago Zoological Society!
The News Photographers Association of Canada
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009In 2009, Tasmania-based wildlife and nature photographer Iain Williams joined us on our Lodge Specialist and Cape Churchill trips. The News Photographers Association of Canada showcased his photos and words from our adventures on their blog this week.
Check out his blog here!
I See You Baby…
Monday, December 14th, 2009We thought we would share a video that Julie Hartley & Tom Adair, two of our 2009 Polar Bears in Churchill guests, created in tribute to their adventure. We had a good laugh here around the office! The video also features special guest appearances by none other than FNA Interpretive Guide, Derek Kyostia, and Tundra Buggy driver, Bob Debets. Check it out!
Check out other videos by Julie and Tom here.
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
Friday, December 11th, 2009FNA’s mission is to share with our guests the wildlife of the north as well as the culture, history and customs of the people of the north. Earlier this year we started working with Dr. Ian Mauro, an environmental and social scientist at the University of Victoria, to help us better understand and communicate with our guests issues affecting the people of Canada’s north. In September Ian joined us in Churchill as a Frontiers North-sponsored PBI Leadership Camp facilitator.
Ian has been teaching and conducting research in Nunavut for nearly a decade. In 2010, he and Zacharias Kunuk, acclaimed Inuk filmmaker, will be releasing the ‘Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change’ feature film. A portion of this film, entitled Ukiutatuq Takuguk! (or Look! The Arctic!) is being presented later this week in Copenhagen at the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
On December 9th, Zac and Ian were featured on the CBC’s The National evening news program discussing the film and why, while the film is being presented in Copenhagen, they are in Igloolik, Nunavut.
Here is the National’s news story:
And here is the film being presented in Copenhagen later this week:
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