On the edge of the Western Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, is located in small town.
Here, the sea finds boreal forest under the vortex of northern lights. Farther away from the north, the trees grow. Snow canada’s hard and uninterrupted landscape crosses the willow.
The road does not lead to Churchill. It’s just a rail line and a airport track, occasionally leads to Charter plane.
But it attracts tourists and scientists, in the fall in a short time, the Kings of the Arctic migrate outside the house throughout the house. The passengers come here, from the whole world, looking for a thing: your eyes lock with a polar bear.
Bears
Polar bear means during all falls during Churchill, while waiting for ice in the bay. Males lead to ice first to walk and test the edges, eager to travel north to hunt the stamp called.
Scientists converge on Churchill because of the most accessible point of learning polar bears. The bears are here those who are most researched in the world, and the most important photo.
These Arctic beasts have large personalities: they play and cuckoo and nap them spend time. Males will often experience, in order to get to know each other, we combine spring loaded fights.
Cubs have passed two or three years after his mother before being chased and forced him to live on his own. The following year, they test water; Sometimes they are struggling to survive while hunting and maintaining a tundra hunting and maintaining.
“Sharp change of ecosystem”
In recent years, the heating Arctic is melting on ice, the bear behavior is changing: international international scientists say that ice is forming two weeks later than in the 1980s and is forming two weeks before spring earlier.
This dead change in the environment keeps the bears forced, closer to humans and further north covers.
It is a change, turned on changing climates – parents and grandparents did not have to deal with it. Yes, the bears are constantly evolved, since 500,000 years, but the rhythm of change is worrying scientists.
The main climate scientist in the international Flavio International Flavio, as a result of the decline of sea ice, is as low as the polar decline of the western Bay Hudson was approximately half of what was in the 1980s.
“It’s very deep,” he said. “It’s hard to find other places, perhaps the deforestation of Amazon because you see the hard change in ecosystems caused by climate change.”
Lehner will not improve the predictive situation, and beyond the decline of the population, it is also seeing change in behavior. It was much more typical to find mothers with triple, which in his personal experience, is very rare.
Polar polar bears say these bears can be comfortable in 180 days on earth. In other parts of the world, birds and reinders have seen, but scientists say that this high protein diet can damage the kidneys and stop loss of 2-4 pounds when they are away from the day.
“The rhythm of the current change works too fast,” John Whiteman, explained, the main research scientists in PBI. “Polar bears will not be able to evolve or blur in time to deal with the current rate of sea ice loss.”
Whiteman hopes that polar bears will stick to the next 10 years or sometimes, but the timeline begins to reach the future for 20 to 30 years.
“In the end, if we lose sea ice, we lose polar bears,” said Whiteman.
Town
Churchill has always been in the abyss. There are many lives living – the first nations from home to military citizens to trade mail, the polar bear in the world.
It attracts a special kind of person. Often one who finds pleasure in solitude. People who come for employment are half nomadic workers in the tourism industry, or maybe they are looking for change. Guides and nature fans, seasonal staff attracted a slow and simpler rhythm of life.
Others – like Mike Spente 30-year mayor – they have lived here. When he returned from an early age, the city conservation agents were filming 20 and 22 years a year. But over time, the approach has changed.
“First of all, we respect wildlife,” he said. “Polar bears are quite significant in the world of indigenous people – it is at the top of his food chain. There is a lot of respect.”
The town is in front of the future, the polar polar season is likely to disappear. Once temporarily, the community will be forced to coexist more closely with the bear while waiting to form ice on the bay. And the infrastructure is to adapt to the warming climate and melting the permafrost, it is a lot of people looking for Spence solutions.
“We have always challenged,” Spencing says. But the community is also “usually finds a way.”
These solutions are to take the authority of a port and railway that has fallen in 2017 due to lack of floods and maintenance. When it starts working with full potential, hope will have more coherent jobs and resources for the community. Meanwhile, a new program in the village grows in microgreens and the new vessel of the resistant bear has streets, all in the North forj to forgive people and fauna.
“What we need to do now is growing here to grow our young people, build a stronger community and build a larger community,” Spencing says. “What they’ve got is quite precious.”
Fight for a future
On the outskirts of the town, Wyatt Daley connects his dogs, preparing to carry three turns a day. Autumn is the summit of tourist season, and the day will spend the day among the trees of the Boreal forest, looking at the snow.
Churchill is based on the tourism coming from those who want to see polar bears. To maintain business, some tourism companies are hoping to protect their future.
One of these ways of this wild side of this wild north advertising advertising – 300 nights and annual Beluga whale migration Aurora dancing in the summer.
But it is not only a nutritious economic engine: the year for families and the next generation Churchill to choose Churchill, it tends to taste everything he needs and offer.
Wyatt was Daley, a few years ago, asked parents to move southther. Father Dave, the owner of the dog fungus and tourism company, would shake his head and he said, “We have dogs, this is our lifestyle.” And that was the end of this particular conversation.
He saw his friends and his family left – especially in the middle school years – looking for “better options”. After graduating, he traveled to the whole world, worked in the tourism industry in Australia and Cologne. But he came home. Back to dogs, and return to Churchille.
Churchill, he said, gave it “everything”. He feels connection with dogs to the ground. The father is his best friend. And that is, in fact, who wants Noah his son, now he is 3 years – it also has affinity about dogs.
“I remember having a little child and standing in the rear skis with my father and walking,” he said. “That’s right now looking forward … (Noah) I think and he walks with me.”
But this heritage is threatened with warming, and is a weight while Daleys fights to protect their lifestyle north.
“It’s a dreadful thought that polar bears can’t think of a day here,” says Dave Daley. “Earth is a living thing planet, and we are doing it and we are changing everything. I think we really need to get a handle and start taking it seriously.”
