We cannot say it enough – we love when we receive images and video from our guests from their adventures with us!
FNA guest Gary Lehman travelled with us in 2006 and sent us two videos that he created of his photographs while up in Churchill viewing polar bears. Great work Gary!
There are many reasons why we feel our Tundra Buggies provide our guests the ultimate experience in polar bear viewing. Not only can we get up close and personal with the “Lords of the Arctic”, we can do so in a safe manner for our guests (and their photography equipment). We’re not entirely sure what happened in the image below that was captured in Alaska, but from what we can tell, polar bears do not like the “paparazzi”. Here is the accompanying story to go along with the image that was published in the New York Daily News.
Have a great weekend!
Image © National News/ZUMApress.com
Yesterday in Chicago, IL, FNA’s Grant Chem and John Gunter were invited to get a behind-the-scenes look at the Brookfield Zoo’s soon to be open Great Bear Wilderness exhibit.
Built to meet the Manitoba Standards as put forth by Manitoba Conservation and endorsed by Polar Bears International, the new exhibit is quite impressive with three separate grottos, natural substrates, large pool for the bears and underwater viewing for zoo guests, as well as large off-exhibit space to comfortably accommodate the Zoo’s grizzly and polar bears.
Hosting Grant and John were Melissa Farruggia, Campaign Director and Livia McCormick, Woman’s Board Manager. The Brookfield Zoo and Frontiers North are teaming-up on an autumn 2010 Tundra Buggy Adventure in Churchill to experience wild polar bears where we plan to turn the tables; this autumn it’s the people that will be on exhibit for the polar bears, not the other way around!
Melissa Farruggia, Grant Chem, Livia McCormick and John Gunter
John and Grant waiting in the rain for their taxi.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Although we currently don’t have any images that depict our love for this festive day, we figured we would post some more polar bear favourites that were captured by Dave Allcorn this past Autumn both near our Tundra Buggy Lodge and on our Legendary Cape Churchill adventure. As you may recall, we posted some of his beautiful summer images last Friday on our blog.
Enjoy!
All images © Dave Allcorn
According to recent studies, more grizzly bears are moving into the northern regions of Canada, with some even spotted in Wapusk National Park. In fact, a total of 9 grizzlies have been spotted in the past 14 years, with 4 spotted this summer alone. It still remains somewhat of a mystery as to why these grizzly bears are so far from their typical habitats, but experts figure it is more likely due to reduced hunting pressures than global warming.
The scientific community isn’t worrying too much about the fact that there will be an increase in grizzly-polar bear conflicts because if the trend in loss of ice and habitat for the northeastern corner of Manitoba continues, polar bears will not frequent Wapusk National Park in the future. This is because the polar bear population will follow Arctic sea ice as it retreats farther north and away from the region. This was further communicated by PBI Species Expert Andy Derochers in an article published by National Geographic.
Polar Bears International’s website has a great video illustration of the sea ice loss and temperature trends of the Arctic on their website. Click on the image below to see the video on their website.
We have a great relationship with Travel Manitoba, a Destination Marketing Organization that promotes Manitoba as an awesome place to vacation. We found a great video they posted on their YouTube channel of 3 excited tourists on one of our Tundra Buggy adventures. They also were able to participate in a dogsledding adventure.
Check it out!
We love hosting media on all of our adventures. A few years ago, we hosted Al Roker from NBC’s TODAY show in Churchill to do a segment on our Tundra Buggy Adventure. He even stayed overnight at our Tundra Buggy Lodge.
Check out the segment below!
Photographer Michelle Valberg travelled to Churchill and captured some amazing polar bear and other arctic wildlife images that were recently featured in the Ottawa Citizen.
Michelle was fortunate to see over 54 polar bears in one day. In total, she snapped 6,140 photos on her trip for a book she’s working on entitled ‘The Land & Life of the Inuit … Through the Generations.’ Proceeds from this book will be donated to aid literacy and fitness and recreation for Inuit children.
Here are some of her images. To view her story in the Ottawa Citizen and more photos, click here.
A few years ago we had the opportunity to host Rick Mercer of CBC’s Rick Mercer Report in Churchill. We had a lot of fun and figured we would share it again!
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