TITLE: Polar Bear Story : Nowhere to Go

Polar bears depend on sea ice for most important aspects of their lives – including hunting, mating and resting. As such, sea ice is crucial for polar bears to survive. Every November Polar Bears gather near a small town called Churchill in Canada, to wait Hudson Bay to be frozen so they can go on the ices to hunt, to spend their winter lives on the ice. However, temperatures in the Arctic are rising nearly four times as fast as the global average, it results that the sea ices are not frozen as early as decades ago. In recent years Hudson Bay has not solid ice until early December. It impacts Polar Bears behave significantly. Without ice Polar Bears can't go on to hunt. They are stranded on the bare lands, nowhere to go and no food to eat. Sometimes those hungry bears roam into the town to search the food, endanger the town residents and theirselves. To protect people and polar bears, Canada conservation agency has to tranquilize and capture those dangerous bears, put them into so called "Polar Bear Jail", then they are transported by helicopter and released when the ice in Hudson Bay has set.

AUTHOR: Kevin Shi (United States)

I am trained as an engineer but love photography. Three years ago I decided to quite my engineering job to focus on my photography passion. I love travel photography and would like to documenting the quickly vanished traditional lifestyles around the world. In additional, I do some portraits and still photography when I am not traveling.