Polar bear death: has extinction tourism gone too far? – Atlas & Boots

Svalbard, a place of dramatic glaciers, vast ice fields and raw, elemental beauty, is one of Europe’s last great wildernesses – but climate change is advancing quickly in the Arctic. Global sea ice was at the lowest level ever recorded last year. Polar bears hunt for seal from sea ice and shrinking levels have forced them to spend more time on land and to hunt over greater distances.

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