Polar bears. In the collective imagination they are always surrounded by the pure white of snow and ice. Shades of color that tend to blue when they go hunting in the sea. But these beautiful images don't always reflect reality. To show us what happens was a photo taken in Manitoba, Canada. Here a bear is on the hunt, but in a landfill
Orsi polar. In the collective imagination they are always surrounded by the pure white of snow and ice. Shades of color that tend to blue when they go hunting in the sea. But these beautiful images don't always reflect reality. To show us what happens was a photo taken at Manitoba, in Canada. Here a bear is on the hunt, but in one rubbish dump.
The frame is no longer that of the Arctic tundra but the garbage. Waste upon waste surround the polar bear, immortalized by Jenny E. Ross dell’International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP).
A scene that perhaps gives the exact measure of the damage we are inflicting on the planet and its unsuspecting inhabitants of the animal kingdom.
The photo was taken near the churchill landfill, in the Canadian region of Manitoba. The bear was stuck on the ground because of the lack of sea ice and he was looking for food.
In this region, climate change is evident. The temperature continue to to go up e polar bears throughout the area are now forced to land for longer and longer periods, away from their hunting grounds.
Human-induced greenhouse gas emissions have contributed to severe sea ice losses. The higher they rise, the higher the temperatures, the seas get warmer and the ice melts.
Polar bears are forced to travel more in search of food but in the meantime human development is expanding further in their territories. This creates another threat to these animals: the presence of our garbage.
If on the one hand we throw tons upon tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, on the other hand we throw a large amount of waste on the earth. On average, we dump around 8,8 million tonnes of plastic waste into the oceans every year.
"Now life for polar bears is always difficult" explains l’International League of Conservation Photographers.
An image, that of the bear in the waste, which speaks for itself.
Francesca Mancuso
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