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Post by warsaw on Aug 20, 2013 1:17:22 GMT -9
Polar bear rescued from Mexican circus It prowls the globe's frozen north, a massive white bruin that fears no predator. The polar bear is both a totemic symbol of Canada and an important part of the Arctic ecosystem. But as four decades of intensive study has shown, climate change is threatening polar bear populations. CBC Digital Archives presents a dozen clips about how these bears of the great white north have gone from trophy hunter's quarry to nuisance to protected species. Kenneth has had to endure conditions no polar bear ever should. Sent to a German zoo in the 1980s after being captured near Churchill, Man., he somehow ended up with a circus in Mexico. Animal activists caught him on video, emaciated and desperately swaying his head. But U.S. wildlife authorities could not act until the circus entered the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Kenneth finds a new home in Tacoma, Wash., but as this 2002 CBC-TV documentary shows, it's a long road to recovery for this white giant. www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/science-technology/natural-science/polar-bears-on-thin-ice/polar-bear-rescued-from-mexican-circus.html
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