Churchill Blog by Heather Ross
Join artist and writer Heather Ross on her travels to Churchill, the "Polar Bear Capital of the World," during the peak of the polar bear migration.

Rolling on the Tundra: A Polar Bear Adventure
Travel to the shores of Hudson Bay with Distinguished Apple Educator Julene Reed, who joined PBI on a polar bear adventure this fall.

Debby, the World's Oldest Polar Bear, Dies at 41
Debby, the world's oldest living polar bear, has died at age 41 at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg, Canada. She was euthanized on November 17 after suffering several strokes and experiencing organ failure.

Polar Picks "Best of the Day" High-Definition Film Clips
PBI's camera crews have started filming and uploading daily polar bear updates from the tundra near Churchill, Manitoba. Each day, until the end of November—or until Hudson Bay freezes and the bears scatter across the ice to hunt seals— the team will deliver same-day HD video from Tundra Buggy One® to audiences around the world.

Hunting Quotas Remain Unchanged in Baffin Bay
Despite concerns about overhunting, polar bear quotas will remain the same in Baffin Bay, Nunavut. Wildlife officials believe that the combined harvest from Greenland, which overlaps with that of Baffin Bay, is unsustainable and could lead to a collapse in the population.

Turn Down the Heat!
Every fall, polar bears gather on the edge of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba, where they wait for the bay to freeze.

PBI's Leadership Camp
PBI's Leadership Camp continues to play a significant role in motivating young people to take up the cause of polar bears and their shrinking Arctic habitat.

Join Us on an Arctic Excursion
PBI has teamed up with Zegrahm Expeditions on two Arctic cruises to see polar bears in the stunning landscape of the Far North.

How Large Is Your Footprint?
PBI has teamed up with Planet Partnership® to create a new website that will help each of us calculate our energy consumption.

World's Oldest Living Polar Bear
Winnipeg's famous polar bear, Debby, who draws throngs of visitors to the Assiniboine Park Zoo, is showing signs of her advanced age and the prognosis of recovery from age-related medical problems is not good.

PBI Creates Arctic Ambassador Centers in Zoos
PBI Creates Arctic Ambassador Centers in Zoos Millions of zoo visitors in North America, Europe, and Australia are learning more about polar bears and climate change thanks to a network of “Arctic Ambassador Centers” established by PBI in alliance with the Zoological Society of San Diego.

Wayward Polar Bear Shot in Iceland
For the second time this summer, a polar bear was shot and killed by authorities in Iceland after riding an ice floe to shore.

U.S. Allows Drilling in Polar Bear Habitat
The Bush administration has given the green light to oil companies to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea—home to about 2,000 polar bears—despite classifying the polar bear as a threatened species less than a month ago.

Alaska Governor Plans to Challenge Polar Bear Listing
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The Truth About Polar Bear Numbers
Scientists have only rough estimates for many of the 19 polar bear populations because it is both difficult and expensive to census the bears in many parts of the Arctic.

Threatened or Endangered Species Decision
A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Department of the Interior must issue a final decision on whether to list the polar bear as a threatened or endangered species by May 15th, 2008.

Teacher's Curriculum
Thanks to hard work from a team of educators, PBI has added a comprehensive teacher's curriculum to its Web site. The curriculum engages upper elementary age students in critical thinking by having them examine the issue of whether eco-tourism should be allowed in the town of Churchill, the famous polar-bear gathering spot on the shores of Hudson Bay.

Scented Trail
How do polar bears manage to find mates in the vast expanses of the Arctic? A new, PBI-funded study led by scientist Megan Owen of the San Diego Zoo will help unravel that question and give biologists a better understanding of the polar bear's breeding process.

What Happens to Your Donation?
PBI’s mission statement—Conservation through research and education—says it all. Our approach to saving polar bears continues to be two-pronged: first, to learn all we can about polar bears by funding projects prioritized by our Scientific Advisory Council, and second, to educate the rest of the world—because each individual has an important role to play in saving the bears and the planet.

New Conservation Alliance with the San Diego Zoo
The ice break-up in the Arctic is taking place at a faster rate than scientists had predicted, threatening the polar bear's future.

Winter Ice Loss in the Beaufort Sea
In late December and early January, enormous cracks appeared in the permanent polar pack ice near Canada's Banks Island in the Beaufort Sea, leaving expanses of open water so wide that ice couldn't be seen on either side.

Melting Arctic Threatens Polar Bears
Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could vanish by 2050 as shrinking sea ice continues to reduce the bears' habitat, according to a recent report by U.S.

Manitoba Designates the Polar Bear as Threatened
On February 7, 2008, the province of Manitoba, home to the world-famous polar bears that gather near Churchill each fall, recognized the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, according to Conservation Minister Stan Struthers.

"Arctic Bears" Premiere on PBS
The polar bear, one of the largest land predators since the dinosaurs, was born out of climate change. As the deep freeze of the last ice age set in, polar bears evolved from grizzlies, adapting to live and hunt on the frozen Arctic Sea.

2008 Is The Year of the Polar Bear
The Year of the Polar Bear (YPB) began on New Year's Day, 2008, with a ceremony at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Oregon.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Delays Decision on Polar Bears
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has once again delayed its decision on whether to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

Threatened Species Status
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

Team Work to Help the World's Polar Bears
Recently, news about retreating ice in the Arctic and how it affects polar bears has been described as the "canary in the coal mine" in terms of climate change.

PBI Puts Polar Bear Scientists on Film
Polar bears and climate change are in the news these days, with a retreating ice pack and thinner polar bears causing concern.

BP Funds PBI Hearing Study
Shikari, an adult female polar bear at the San Diego Zoo, is learning to touch her tongue to a target every time she hears a "ping!" through a speaker.

Young Filmmaker Attends Leadership Camp
PBI has found that one of the best ways to reach young people is through other young people. That's why, this year, we decided to send a student to document our annual Polar Bear Science Leadership Camp, held in Churchill, Manitoba, each fall.

Living with Polar Bears
Fred Bruemmer Writer / Photographer / Arctic Journeyer Following is the complete transcript of an interview conducted by Leeann Myers (PBI Advisory Council) with Fred Bruemmer, on July 2, 2005.