Friday 14 July 2006

Polar Bears in Svalbard





On request from one of my readers I´m posting some pictures of some of the polar bears we have seen so far this season. It is very little sea ice this season and it seems that the bears are congregating where there still is a sufficient "hunting platform" for them. We have seen a lot females with two cubs this season - mabye they are the ones who didn´t make it when trying to follow a fast retreating ice edge this year. Last week we observed 39 polar bears - this is a new record for Polar Star.

1 comment:

Johan said...

Jeg får kikk av å se bildet av isbjørnen på den avstanden. Jeg kan bare ane hvordan det er i virkeligheten. Vakkert som alltid!

Johan