Canadian polar bears near 'bear capital' dying at fast rate

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM
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Polar bears in Canada’s Western Hudson Bay — on the southern edge of the Arctic — are continuing to die in high numbers, a new government survey of the land carnivore has found. Females and bear cubs are having an especially hard time.

Researchers surveyed Western Hudson Bay — home to Churchill, the town called ‘the Polar Bear Capital of the World,’ — by air in 2021 and estimated there were 618 bears, compared to the 842 in 2016, when they were last surveyed.

“The actual decline is a lot larger than I would have expected,” said Andrew Derocher, a biology professor at the University of Alberta who has studied Hudson Bay polar bears for nearly four decades. Derocher was not involved in the study.

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And then in this country we have (I'm Concerned Susan Collins) filing a lawsuit of long lines used to trap lobsters entangling the North Atlantic Right Whales whereby there are about 750 of that whale species left....and I have been to Churchill Canada back in the day....like 1962 and saw these magnificent creatures just eating salmon like there was no tomorrow.....now.... there is no tomorrow for them.....