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Polar Bear Tracker Up and Running!

The Polar Bears International Bear Tracker is finally back on track and should be posting regular updates weekly. We would like to thank the explore.org community for their patience while we worked out kinks on our new website. For those who may have missed some updates this fall, we have good news about one of

Ursula on the Move!

We have finally seen movement from Ursula and her cubs! Looks like the family is now on the sea ice right around the time we would expect. Soon the seals in the region will be pupping and there will be plenty of easy food for the hungry mom and her two young ones to consume.

Short Ursula Update- Cubs!

By Alysa McCall of Polar Bears International  Though we haven’t seen movement from her collar yet, our favorite female polar bear has been sighted. Ursula (or X33410 to researchers) was seen on March 5th outside of her den in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba, with two brand new cubs. She was spotted by researchers in a helicopter

Until Next Time, Aurora…

Well folks, it looks like there was a reason that Aurora has not been moving very much lately: she seems to have lost her collar.

Slow and Steady Gets the Seals (Hopefully)

It’s time again to check in again with Aurora the polar bear and her cubs to see if they have been up to anything new and exciting since their last update. Surprise: they haven’t. This is not to discount what they have been doing, because anything a polar bear does is pretty cool! But this

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