Posted on 02/11/2013 4:32:51 PM PST by nickcarraway
Home of the grizzly: Photographer's stunning images capture beauty of America and Canada's real bear country, where man takes second place
The continuing fight for life of North America's bears has been captured in spectacular style in a series of dramatic pictures.
Grizzly, polar and black bears are pictured in the wilds of Alaska scavenging in bins, stripping a whale carcass and scrapping over the best fishing spots.
Photographer Steven Kazlowski has spent the past 15 years living in bear country and capturing the most intimate, hilarious and adrenaline-fuelled moments of his furry subjects.
The series by the 43-year-old also features the more fun side of the creatures.
Cubs are seen play fighting, scrapping over food and cuddling up together.
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Great images.
Kazlowski has his bears....Swamp Sniper has his birds.
Book: Polar bear population on the riseThere are far more polar bears alive today than there were 40 years ago. In 1973, there was a global hunting ban. So once hunting was dramatically reduced, the population exploded, Mr. Unger said.
Currently, there are an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears worldwide, and that number has increased steadily in the past 40 years since Canada, Denmark, Greenland, Norway, the United States and the former U.S.S.R. signed the International Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears in 1973.
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