Scientist turned photographer Jennifer Hayes documents the fight for survival of harp seals, which are born on sea ice that is getting thinner every year.
Harp seals are born on sea ice, which is getting thinner every year. Scientist turned photographer Jennifer Hayes documents their fight for survival. A recently weaned harp seal pup swims in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Female harp seals give birth on ice. For two weeks, pups build up fat reserves, enabling them to be weaned from their mothers, to withstand frigid waters, and to survive on their own.
Diving beneath a white cathedral of ice, I could hear the shrill whistles, honks, and squeaks of harp seals. They could easily have been mistaken for the sounds of a rainforest—except I was in the frigid waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Around me, adult harp seals gracefully soared through their private underworld. On a ceiling of ice above us rested thousands of newborn pups. I was in the Magdalen Islands, an archipelago in the gulf, in March 2011. Together with my partner, David Doubilet, I had set out to photograph harp seals as part of a comprehensive story on the marine ecosystem of the Gulf of St. Lawrence—an alcove of the North Atlantic Ocean—where the waters teem with life
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