panda.org

Description: WWF-Canon Polar Bear Tracker. A website where, amongst other things, you can track Polar Bears.

Newest Review: ... of this review because this work can be followed closely by logging into a website www.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/a rctic/area/species/polarbear/polar_bear/ For the last 4 years the polar bears of Svalbard have been closely monitored. They have been tagged and their movements closely monitored. This work is specifically designed to see if climate change is having any influence on ... more

... their behaviour, and is looking for any detrimental impact which may reveal itself. An interesting fact is that the polar bears have to be female for this work as male bears have necks wider than their bodies so the tagging collars fall off! When the...more

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panda.org: Come With Me To Meet The Polar Bears Of Svalbard! (979 words)
by - written on 09/09/09 (Very useful, 45 readings)
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When I was in the 6th form at school I had to be the biggest dreamer in those days, and would spend endless hours studying maps and globes, and thinking what life would be like in places so far away, I would only be able to imagine them. Since then I have always kept the passion alive by reading travel and geography books, and in later years by trawling websites, which are so good now, you can even imagine yourself there! It was the northern lands which really fascinated me, I remember doing Norway at school and for one of my teenage birthdays I went up to London to the giant bookshop "Foyle's" and picked a thick textbook off the shelf. This study ... Read the complete review

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