The DEC announced recently the numbers on the bears harvested during the 2024 season. The 1685 bears taken were 24% higher ...

Polar bears spend about 50% of their time hunting, and only two out of ten seal hunts are successful. If no seals can be found, these apex predators will eat anything they can get, including ...

A single polar bear’s range can span 300,000 square kilometres; the size of the United Kingdom and Ireland combined. When hibernating a bear will lose up to a third of its body weight and only ...

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk ...

(Photo: Paul Hamilton/Can Geo Photo Club) The ends of the hairs on grizzly bears’ flanks, backs and shoulders often have white tips and give the bears a “grizzled” appearance, hence the species’ name.