No Place to Go

Excellent (but unhappy) report by Winnipeg Free Press on prospects for the "world's southernmost polar bear subpopulations"

"There's no place to move...Up the coast is already inhabited."

"The average polar bear eats about 43 seals a year. Missing out on two or three of those meals is enough to cause a female polar bear to lose enough mass to give birth to underweight cubs or no cubs at all..."

""All seals aren't equal, as far as polar bears are concerned," he said, noting the ideal polar bear meal is about six weeks old.

"At that stage, they're little balls of fat. They aren't very smart about predators...What's happening at breakup is the bears are losing access to the seals at the most important time."