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Would you mind living next door to a top predator? It’s a question I’ve asked you before. It seems that when it comes to bears, lions or wolves, we humans, as a whole, can’t get rid of our four-footed, predatory neighbors fast enough.
Nature Photography
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected this beautiful scenic view of a grizzly bear in Alaska. Photographer Heather Brandon is a Senior Fisheries Officer in WWF’s Arctic Field Program. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Travel Tales
“Okay, link arms with someone near you; we are going to wade across this river” said Brad Josephs, a veteran Natural Habitat bear guide. He was leading us towards the Sedge Meadow in Hallo Bay, Alaska located in Katmai National Park.
Nature & Wildlife
The planet’s largest land predator looked disarmingly cuddly.
Conservation
Almost a year ago, in July 2014, Washington state experienced the worst string of wildfires ever in its history. The first fire began on July 8 near the Entiat River. Then, on July 14, a lightning storm started dozens more across the eastern Cascade Range.
Nature Photography
A rare species of bear was recently spotted teaching its young cub how to fish, says Daily Mail. These elusive ‘Spirit bears’ can be seen in British Colombia’s beautiful Great Bear Rainforest.
Travel Tales
When you first start exploring beyond your home ground, you tend to see everything in relation to where you live: what’s different, what’s similar, what’s unheard of and what’s exactly the same. I suppose it’s our way of getting a grip on new surroundings and beginning to have them make sense.
Conservation
Kudos to California. Last October, it became the first state to ban lead ammunition for all types of hunting. The ban will benefit the state’s namesake condors, which nearly went extinct. In 1982, only 22 California condors remained on the planet.
Videos
You won’t believe what happened while a film crew was filming this commercial for a Samsung clothes dryer! They were shooting last January in British Columbia near Manning Park, an area known for moose, deer, cougar, and especially bear sightings.
Nature & Wildlife
When UCLA Medical Center cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was asked one day to perform echocardiography on the failing heart of a Los Angeles Zoo emperor tamarin, a small monkey that evolved in the treetops of the Central and South American rain forests, she couldn’t have predicted how profoundly that act would change her thinking on…
Nature & Wildlife
When Lewis and Clark were exploring the West in 1805, it’s estimated that 50,000 to 100,000 grizzly bears roamed the Great Plains. But by the late 1800s, as the West was getting settled, large animals were “cleared away” to make room for homesteading, mining and ranching.
Videos
All bear cubs appear to be incredibly curious, and black bear cubs are no exception. However, this penchant for wanderlust and exploration can sometimes result in some thrilling—but not exactly welcome—adventures. Watch the one-minute video below. Mother bear is frantic: three of her cubs have fallen inside a roadside dumpster.
