Sled dog breeder David Daley lives at the gateway to the Canadian Arctic, occupying a front-row seat to the march of global warming, and he senses calamity ahead.
"For all the devastation that we're doing to her, she's not going to sit still, our planet Mother Earth will punish us," Daley says.
The town of Churchill in Canada's Manitoba province is an isolated settlement at the edge of the Hudson BayDaley has been hunting here all his life and has seen the wildlife change up close, some species vanishing and others arriving. During the Cold War, a joint Canadian-US military installation in Churchill stood guard against a possible Soviet attack coming over the North Pole. The installation is now deserted, and local concerns today concentrate more on polar bears.
It's even more complicated in the fall, when the bears are starving after months of failing to find food on land, without a seal in sight. Ian Van Nest, a wildlife officer in Churchill, Manitoba, says a special set-up is put in place to keep children safe from polar bears on HalloweenThe town is also equipped with new radars that can detect polar bears within two kilometers of its most outlying homes, even at night or thick fog.
A few thousand tourists find their way each year to the area around Churchill, Manitoba, drawn by the increased presence of polar bearsThis remote corner of Manitoba province is inaccessible by car from the rest of Canada, yet a few thousand tourists find their way each year, by air or rail, drawn by the increased presence of the polar bears.
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