Why, some days you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a polar bear!
A survey of the animals’ numbers in Canada’s eastern Arctic has revealed that they are thriving, not declining, because of mankind’s interference in the environment.
In the Davis Strait area, a 140,000-square kilometre region, the polar bear population has grown from 850 in the mid-1980s to 2,100 today.
“There aren’t just a few more bears. There are a hell of a lot more bears,” said Mitch Taylor, a polar bear biologist who has spent 20 years studying the animals.
His findings back the claims of Inuit hunters who have long claimed that they were seeing more bears.
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“Scientific knowledge has demonstrated that Inuit knowledge was right,” said Mr Taylor.
While fellow scientists have accepted Mr Taylor’s findings, critics point out that his study was commissioned by the Inuit-dominated government of Nunavit.
His conclusions are correct, but cannot be accepted, for they sprang from motives impure! Perhaps one day we’ll be able to peruse through a “Tobacco Company Discovers Cancer Cure, Activists Question Motive” news story.
