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Churchill Polar Bears
By Brandi Worden, WWF Senior Program Administrator, Reporting Lead Animal sightings in Churchill, Manitoba ebb and flow with the sea ice in Hudson Bay. In the summer as the ice melts, you’ll find the largest gathering of beluga whales in Canada.
Nature Photography
For most of my life, I have lived in highly touristed areas, first in a Floridian beach community where the population doubled each winter. It has more than quadrupled in my lifetime, and the rate of population growth continues to increase. Water quality, traffic, and storm impacts are more than local experts can manage.
Nature & Wildlife
Feathers, hair and scales. While it might seem that there’s a lot of difference between these natural “coverings” on animals, they have more in common than you’d probably think. Despite their multitude of forms, all three of these vertebrate skin appendages share early developmental processes at the embryonic stage.
African Safaris
“One of the biggest myths is that you’re not allowed to look into a gorilla’s eyes. Of course, you are,” reveals Richard de Gouveia, Nat Hab Expedition Leader and star of our short film, The Silverback. “It’s the place where you’re going to see their soul.” The concept of a “soul” is human by design.
Nature & Wildlife
One of the best things about spending time in nature is spotting animals in their natural habitats, seemingly going about their lives as if we weren’t watching. It’s those brief glimpses into the wild that our souls seem to crave.
Alaska
“Our goal with this film is to educate a broader audience and elicit an empathetic emotional response that shifts the hearts and minds of viewers to better understand bears and the communities that coexist with them.”
Conservation
Today, across the planet, hundreds of millions of acres of land are being abandoned due to what’s known as rural outmigration, or people leaving for urban centers. Some people leave their rural lives behind to seek economic prosperity in cities when agriculture is no longer profitable.
Canada & the North
“Our stories are centred on the land because our identities are intrinsically connected to the land and our languages.
Churchill Polar Bears
On the southwest coast of Canada’s Hudson Bay is the town of Churchill, Manitoba, known for its sled dogs, auroral views, and, in the fall, its grand title “The Polar Bear Capital of the World.”
Nature & Wildlife
Although the official midpoint of summer occurs on August 7 (because the summer solstice is on June 21), a lot of us consider the Fourth of July the season’s middle marker.
Nature & Wildlife
Bison are having a moment, and we couldn’t be happier for North America’s largest—and once widest-ranging—land mammal. Although an estimated 30–60 million plains bison roamed freely prior to European colonization and westward expansion, by 1889, their numbers had fallen to a mere 512.
Conservation
Around 850 CE, an Ethiopian goat herder named Kaldi was maintaining his livestock when together, they happened upon an unusual plant with berries. The animals began snacking, and Kaldi soon noticed a change in their demeanor.
