Polar Bear

Project Noah Fact of the Day: Shrinking ice is not the only negative effect of climate change upon polar bears. The warmer climate also makes it more hospitable to parasites and other diseases that may have a negative impact on the bears! Source: http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22823/0 Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) spotted in Svalbard, Norway by PN user AdamRiley. https://www.facebook.com/projectnoah/photos/a.10150595289465603.674700.10150120463815603/10156666630370603/?type=3&theater

No matter when, a polar bear photo like this is always a treat to view.

wonderful, adam!

International Polar Bear Day Fun fact! There are no bi-polar bears! Polar bears live only in Arctic areas that surround the North Pole—not in Antarctica. Although you may see illustrations of penguins and polar bears together, this could never happen. In fact, the word arctic comes from the Greek word for bear, and Antarctic comes from the Greek meaning the opposite, without bear! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152594246890603&set=a.10152575329380603.958289.10150120463815603&type=1https://twitter.com/projectnoah/status/306874303297769473

What a good picture!

wow

Amazing pictures Adam! You can join this misson with this spotting - http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8086528

Great spotting Adam! This makes me excited, I'm heading up to Svalbard and Greenland this summer and get to come off our ship for a few hours at Longyearbayen, reeeeally hoping for some polar bear sightings!!! Lovely photographs here :)

What a great story. Would love to photograph these bears sometime....

Lovely,

Wonderful! Svalbard is another destination on my "bucket list"!