Little Hiding Wapusks (White Bears)
Polar Bear Cubs Looking out of the Den, Wapusk National Park, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada "World Wildlife Day" tomorrow. "Polar Bear Children Hiding in the Snow Cave", Manitoba, Canada Tomorrow, March 3, is "World Wildlife Day." Enacted by the United Nations General Assembly to commemorate the Washington Treaty being adopted on March 3, 1973. It is a day to raise awareness of various wildlife living in the natural environment ... This is Wapusk National Park in Manitoba, Canada. "Wapusk" is an indigenous language that means "polar bears", and there are so many polar bears that it is called the "capital of polar bears." They hunt on ice floes, but in recent years the effects of global warming have reduced ice floes and are threatening extinction. ( © Robert Harding / Alam)
