Whitehorse couple wakes to find pistachio ice cream-loving bear on their couch
‘You don’t expect to ever see a bear as a guest in your living room,’ says Mary Lake resident Al
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Canadian polar bear expert Ian Stirling given lifetime award
Ian Stirling (PhD) was awarded Ice Bear Lifetime Achievement Award Saturday by Polar Bears International, a non-profit solely focused on
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Man in Arctic Canada fined for unlawfully killing polar bear
A man from Inuvik, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, has been fined $1,500 for killing a polar bear last year. Justin
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Man in Arctic Canada found guilty of killing polar bear without tag
A man who killed a polar bear on an isolated island in Canada’s Arctic cannot claim self-defence because he got
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Round-the-clock ‘bear cam 360’ goes live in Finland
For the first time, you can watch a 360-degree live webcast that puts you in the middle of a community
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Trial starts for man charged with ‘unlawfully’ killing polar bear in northwestern Canada
A man facing charges for allegedly hunting a polar bear in the Beaufort Delta region without tags is on trial
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Bear brawl at garbage dump in northern Canada caught on tape
In a video posted to Facebook recently, two black bears appear to rear up in a grumpy confrontation in the
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No photos! Put your phone down around polar bears, wildlife enforcement says
A picture of a nearby polar bear is impressive, but it can also be dangerous to get. That’s why wildlife
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Couple in Atlantic Canada feels lucky to be alive after polar bear encounter
Carrie Dyson says both she and her husband are lucky to be alive after a “horrifying” close encounter with a
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The garbage polar bears get into is getting into them
Aluminum foil. Car keys. Candy wrappers. Half a towel. If there was a Canada Food Guide for bears, none of
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Fatal bear attack in northwestern Canada could not have been prevented, investigation finds
An investigation into last fall’s fatal grizzly bear attack in Yukon has found that there was nothing Valérie Théorêt could
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No charges against elder in Arctic Canada for killing polar bear and cub
Nunavut’s Department of Environment won’t be charging an elder from Igloolik after he shot and killed a mother polar bear
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Relocating bears won’t fix conflicts with humans, say environment officials in northwestern Canada
Relocating problem bears cannot be seen as a solution to Yukon’s rising number of human/bear conflicts, warn conservation officers with
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Thousands of bear tags are sold each year in northwest Canada, so why are so few hunted?
Hundreds of Yukoners are buying seals every year allowing them to hunt bears when they have no intention of actually
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Scientists find hundreds of new toxins in blood of Canadian polar bears
Hundreds of previously unknown contaminants were found in a new study of polar bear blood, published in a German chemical
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