Join our Facebook LIVE Event on International Polar Bear Day!
Meet the people leading the fight to protect polar bears from being killed as rugs or hunting trophies and celebrate the great white bears with personal encounters, beautiful imagery and news about their protection.
Saturday, 27th Feb 2021
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Taking part is free and easy. Simply click the FB LIVE EVENT logo on the right and it will take you there.
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Here's what's in store...
Ole J LioddenNorwegian wildlife photographer and polar bear expert Ole Liodden will share stories from his many close encounters with wild polar bears. Ole will talk about the challenges and thrills of capturing polar bears in his breath-taking images and how polar bears, in turn have captured his imagination and made him determined to see them protected.
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Shannon RakeMeet Shannon Rake, Hope Spot Program Manager for Mission Blue as she talks about how we have joined forces to protect polar bear habitat in Norway both on land and at sea.
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Dr Barbara MaasFind out from PNP's Founder and Chief Executive, conservation and animal welfare biologist Dr Barbara Maas, how international trade in polar bear skins and trophies undermines the bears' survival and why ending it is an urgent priority.
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