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Legendary Cape Churchill Image An All-Time Top 40

frontiersnorth — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:00:19 +0000

Along with Dan Guravich and Daniel J. Cox, Tom Mangelsen is one of a handful of photographers that helped bring images of Churchill’s polar bears into popular culture. Although he hasn’t traveled with us to Cape Churchill in over a decade, Tom’s images are still making an impact, as shared by the London Telegraph.

This image of Tom’s was singled out by International League of Conservation Photographers as one of the Top 40 Nature Photographs of all time to help celebrate Christie’s inaugural Green Auction: A Bid to Save the Earth on the 40th annual Earth Day this April 22nd. Congratulations Tom!

Image © Tom Mangelsen

The Godfather of Polar Bears

frontiersnorth — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:04:56 +0000

In 2008, along with PBI we had the opportunity to host Nat and Alex Wolff of the Nat & Alex Wolff Band (formerly the Naked Brothers Band) at Cape Churchill. While at the Cape, the brothers filmed a few informative videos where they interviewed such heavyweights in the polar bear research community as Dr. Ian Stirling and Steven Amstrup.

Here is Alex Wolff and his interview with the “Godfather of Polar Bears”, Dr. Stirling from a Tundra Buggy at Cape Churchill where they discuss polar bear tagging, the issues of climate change in the North, and his experience in a polar bear den.

The News Photographers Association of Canada

frontiersnorth — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:49:53 +0000

In 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!

Song for Polar Bears

frontiersnorth — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:00:08 +0000

In November 2008 Tom Rugg travelled with us as a special guest of PBI’s and serenaded our Tundra Buggy Lodge guests at Cape Churchill in Wapusk National Park. Tom has an internet hit with The Polar Bear Song, written to raise awareness of climate change among children. Listen here as he talks to BBC Radio Wales about his travels with us. You can also watch Tom’s teacher polar bear video diary of his experience!

Legendary Cape Churchill 2009

frontiersnorth — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:38 +0000

On Saturday, November 21 we woke up and began our annual trek from the Churchill Wildlife Management Area into Wapusk National Park to host guests at Legendary Cape Churchill. Truly a sub-arctic expedition, our journey to Cape Churchill involves disassembling our Tundra Buggy Lodge, hooking-up each unit to a Tundra Buggy and transporting the whole lot 35 km east over the frozen tidal flats of Hudson Bay.

Prior to being permitted by Parks Canada to commence with our move, we conduct exploratory trips into the Park to establish our GPS’ed route. Annually we follow the same general route, deviating slightly to account for uncontrollable factors such as the extent of spill-over from creeks, sea-ice piling up on the tidal flats and the extent of snow drifting and snow cover.

Here are images detailing the results of our two exploratory trips; one trip conducted with two Tundra Buggies and a second trip conducted by helicopter.

Given the warmer-than-normal weather we’ve experienced this year, both FNA and Parks Canada were caught off guard by the success of our exploratory trips and both organizations acted quickly to make possible the trek here for our 38 intrepid guests and small IMAX crew.

Stay tuned for more updates from Cape Churchill!