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Some satellite-tagged bowhead whales are still transmitting signals, 2 years later.

We’ve followed dozens of polar bears on the WWF Polar Bear Tracker since it launched in 2003. But few have wandered as far as Kara, a female bear tagged by researchers in Spring 2013.

Arctic whale specialist Pete Ewins gives us an update on the bowhead whales being tracked by Nunavut Wildlife Management Board and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada.

Kara, aka N26135, was tagged in Svalbard in spring. During the summer and autumn months, she performed a record long journey from Svalbard past Franz Josef Land in Russia and all the way to Severnaya Zemlja.

Arctic whale specialist Pete Ewins gives us an update on the bowhead whales we’re tracking by satellite.

Keeping people and bears safe in the Arctic is a real challenge, and one we expect will only increase in time as the sea ice continues to recede and more bears spend more time onshore.

A polar bear biologist’s update on the polar bears we’re tracking on Svalbard, Norway.

Updates on two of the polar bears we’re tracking on the Norwegian island of Svalbard.

Jon Aars is a researcher with the Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway’s main institution for research, environmental monitoring and mapping of the polar regions. With the support of WWF, Aars studies polar bear populations on the Norwegian island of Svalbard. Read all of  his field notes from a Spring 2013 research expedition, and follow the bears […]

Jon Aars is a researcher with the Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway’s main institution for research, environmental monitoring and mapping of the polar regions. With the support of WWF, Aars studies polar bear populations on the Norwegian island of Svalbard. Read all of  his field notes from a Spring 2013 research expedition, and follow the bears […]