Bear With Us Centre for Bears

Mission: To promote the understanding and respect for the bear family, ...a species in direct niche competition with the human race. See:

[Gerald Butts @gmbutts]

The Arctic a century ago and now.

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[Bear With Us Centre for Bears @bearwithusbears]

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[Bear With Us Centre for Bears @bearwithusbears]

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[Lana Ciarniello, PhD @LanaCiarniello]

Being the first week of June, all I could think having published on this topic was “Such late den emergence. I hope they managed to maintain some condition.”

[Andrew Derocher @AEDerocher]

Lunchtime for a mom with 2 cubs-of-the-year. We're not sampling family groups so we just flew by these bears. They were sitting on top of a seal kill & weren't too interested in us. The cubs are a good size for being just 1.5 months out of the den - a good mom!

[Bear With Us Centre for Bears @bearwithusbears]

Grizzly #399
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[UBC Science @ubcscience]

"There's no other place where we've tripled a herd of #caribou in such a short time," said #UBC scientist @ClaytonTLamb who worked with two First Nations on the comeback of the Klinse-Za herd.

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[IBA/ bearbiology @IBAbearbiology]

New paper in Ursus provides 1st evidence of brown bears on Wrangel Island, Russia. That bear crossed a lot of sea ice to get to the core of polar bear habitat.

[Andrew Derocher @AEDerocher]

New polar bear paper shows population recovery from severe over-harvest over 18 years by growing at 2%. Project led by Markus Dyck who died in a helicopter crash last year: he made a difference & is missed.

[Andrew Derocher @AEDerocher]

Polar bear on Fogo Island Newfoundland. It may find its way back to sea ice but there's a lot of water between land & where this bear should be. Bears in Newfoundland are common but we rarely know their fate. Long ago, bears could have feasted on Great Auks on Fogo Island.

[Andrew Derocher @AEDerocher]

The disappearing ice in the Barents Sea is quite remarkable for March - this is the area within polar bear habitat with the most rapidly disappearing ice cover (>30 days of ice cover lost / decade).

[Andrew Derocher @AEDerocher]

Satellite tracked polar bears are split east & west: blue bears were collared just south of Churchill & orange ones east & closer to Ontario. They're well separated. Most are still quite far south compared to past years. Maybe they've found good hunting conditions?

[Bear With Us Centre for Bears @bearwithusbears]

Ontario, Canada. Man fined for shooting a swimming bear. https://t.co/tXe62DYvPC

[Andrew Derocher @AEDerocher]

The end of collaborative polar bear research in Russia for now.
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[N.C. Wildlife @NCWildlife]

Biologists at @ncwildlife say if you find a bear den, leave it alone. Black bears are very resourceful in finding places to shelter late December through April as cold weather lingers and cubs are born.

Read more: https://t.co/ORXoPMY2Jt

[Andrew Derocher @AEDerocher]

Hudson Bay polar bears are spread far & wide. Seal hunting isn't great in mid-winter. Most bears won't put on weight until spring so an early break-up is always a challenge for the bears.

[Bear With Us Centre for Bears @bearwithusbears]

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[Andrew Derocher @AEDerocher]

A new article examining the ongoing antics of climate change deniers & polar bears. They still try to confuse with misrepresentation of facts. However, the threat of climate change to polar bears is clearer with every peer-reviewed paper.
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[Bear With Us Centre for Bears @bearwithusbears]

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[Andrew Derocher @AEDerocher]

Hudson Bay polar bears are well offshore & with luck, killing seals. Winter is a tough time for the bears & they're in an energy maintenance mode until seals pup in spring. The rapid energy gain window for the bears starts in April & continues until ice melt.