Death of a Polar Bear
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Death of a polar bear from the TV series Planet Earth, narrated by David Attenborough The second disc in the series contains a programme called Ice Worlds. Select section 4 from the menu, this segment runs from 29m 36s to 39m 24s. This extract shows a lone polar bear, unable to hunt from his usual grounds because of melting ice. He swims for miles and eventually tries to kill a walrus on an island. Exhausted from the swim and unable to feed, 'this bear will not survive’. The piece concludes with the statement that if the global climate continues to warm more polar bears will die like this. |
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Climate change |
The boxed set of the Planet Earth series is available from the BBC. DVD1883. |
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Polar Bear searching for food