Webcam allows world to watch live polar bear migration

[astrid]

Check this out......

http://images.smh.com.au/2011/11/03/2748069/art-bear4-420x0.jpg
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/webcam-allows-world-to-watch-live-polar-bear-migration-20111103-1mwf5.html

"About 1000 polar bears linger outside the Canadian town of Churchill, Manitoba, waiting for the Hudson Bay to freeze over about this time, every year.

Tourists flock to the town to see them.

But this year, cameras turned on the polar bears are also bringing a front-row view of their annual migration to anyone with an internet connection.
A group of philanthropic and animal welfare organisations have partnered to set up a string of high-definition cameras in remote wilds to "allow people to observe the natural world we live in with the hope that they'll develop emotional connections with the planet", said Charlie Annenberg, a filmmaker and founder who spearheaded the project.

His team affixed the first of them on the outskirts of Churchill this week, on to a roving "tundra buggy" that is used for transporting tourists, and on the edges of a lodge situated directly in the path of the age-old migration.

Harsh weather and wavering internet connectivity in the far north proved to be a challenge.

But the video capturing the migration - which starts in the last week of October until the end of November - is now being streamed live on explore.org."

http://explore.org/#!/live-cams/player/polar-bear-lodge-cam

Doesn't seem to be daylight there right now, or cam is down,
i will check back in the morning.....

Also check out the photos here, they are SPECTACULAR..

http://explore.org/#!/photos/player/polar-bears-1

http://explore.org/#!/photos/player/polar-bears-2

http://explore.org/photos/3518/942/500/y/polar-bear-ursus-maritimus-mother-and-cub-on-th.jpg

[Ruby L.]

Thanks for that, Astrid. What a marvellous project!

I've bookmarked the webcam page and will be checking it regularly; what a treat to be able to observe polar bears in their own environment.

Also, personally, I'm super delighted that you've brought this project to my awareness. Not long ago, I was watching a documentary posted up on PA, 'Dying To Have Known'; in an opening segment, there was a short clip of a starving polar bear being shot, as a 'mercy' killing-- that image has haunted me so.



A group of philanthropic and animal welfare organisations have partnered to set up a string of high-definition cameras in remote wilds to "allow people to observe the natural world we live in with the hope that they'll develop emotional connections with the planet"

The video capturing the migration - which starts in the last week of October until the end of November - is now being streamed live on explore.org.

This project is a beautiful and brilliant idea, indeed!

[Etherios]

A group of philanthropic and animal welfare organisations have partnered to set up a string of high-definition cameras in remote wilds to "allow people to observe the natural world we live in with the hope that they'll develop emotional connections with the planet"

The video capturing the migration - which starts in the last week of October until the end of November - is now being streamed live on explore.org.


I have to disagree ... I want to change this to

" allow people to not worry about survival and they WILL observe the natural world we live in with the hope that they'll develop emotional connections with the planet"

Atm all the above is the privilege of the "rich". The majority of the people are too tired to spend time observing the world or too hungry to even think about it...

All these attempts to "persuade" humanity to be better and more nature loving is all useless and just for show. it reminds me how todays medicine works "We dont cure the problem ... we cure the symptom"

[Ruby L.]

Etherios, why the negativity and division? Because this project doesn't fix ALL the world's problem at once?

How's inspiration, appreciation, delight and education, with regards to our animal friends, as in this case, "useless and just for show"? Well, it'll be just that if you choose to view it that way.

Perspective, my friend; this world already has enough negativity in it for us to be adding even more to it, don't you think?

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01811/polar-bear-face_1811615i.jpg

[Sidney]

Astrid, Thank you for sharing!!! OMG- And the epitome of motherhood. I just want to snuggle up with them.

[Etherios]

Etherios, why the negativity and division? Because this project doesn't fix ALL the world's problem at once?

How's inspiration, appreciation, delight and education, with regards to our animal friends, as in this case, "useless and just for show"? Well, it'll be just that if you choose to view it that way.

Perspective, my friend; this world already has enough negativity in it for us to be adding even more to it, don't you think?

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01811/polar-bear-face_1811615i.jpg

where is the negativity in my reply? All i said is that this is planned and its just to distract us from the main main issue that is human survival.

I stand to what i believe that all these are aid pads on a gun wound.

Ill repeat what i said to explain the useless part.

we are 7 bill ... less than 1 bill lives in the civilized world and in humane conditions. The rest 6 bill are struggling everyday to survive. So you really think that this will help humanity as a hole to understand nature? i think not. Is that negativity and division? i call it reality and global view.

I truelly believe humans are not born evil ... they are made by their society. So if you want humans to be more nature friendly ... change human society. Making a show out of nature isnt really changing humanity.

if you think that humanity has the luxury of "inspiration, appreciation, delight and education, with regards to our animal friends" then you really dont see all humanity and just talk about the "rich".

[Etherios]

If you want to talk about division then lets talk about all those animal lover that will pass by a dieing person in their streets and just pretend they didnt see .... but at home they take care of many animals. < i call this hypocrisy and i dont mind being divided to those people.

This is by no means an offense to anyone in this forum. i am sure 99% of the people here are truelly kind and wonderful, but the topic is about humanity and nature not the few thousand reading this.