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Viewer Outrage Over Polar Bear Killed on UK Television Show (Video)

12:25 pm in animal rights, animals, conservation, polar bears, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

dead polar bear photo Image via youtube screengrab What makes great nature TV? To Channel 4, it's going inside, quite literally, the animals they're profiling. And that includes polar bears. Viewers, however, are in an uproar over the fact that the Channel 4 show, Inside Nature's Giants : Polar Bear, featured a polar bear (a highly threatened species) being shot, skinned and then analyzed. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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When the Arctic’s Ice-Free, What Happens to the Polar Bears?

6:58 pm in animals, conservation, endangered species, polar bears, Science & Technology by TreeHugger

polar_bears_03.jpg Ashore on Svalbard, a male polar bear investigates a whale's backbone. Fat reserves from hunting ringed and bearded seals, and sometimes walruses, must carry bears through lean summers. All photos by Florian Schulz/National Geographic. That's the question posed by a great, bummer-laden article in the July issue of National Geographic. Polar bears, once the de facto mascot of climate change, have drifted out of focus a bit, probably as the mood soured on climate in American politics and discourse. But that doesn't make them any less susceptible to losing the...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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