{"id":1290,"date":"2014-05-17T09:49:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T09:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.7.128\/wpmigrate\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2014-05-17T09:49:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T09:49:43","slug":"living-with-polar-bears-in-churchill-manitoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/travel\/living-with-polar-bears-in-churchill-manitoba\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"3a64bb57635b757d04b12bcf0c14b9a3\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9477973674766713\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8885944693\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/images\/articles\/churchillhalloweentrap.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bear Trap\" title=\"Bear Trap\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thought raccoons breaking into your garbage was bad?&nbsp; Imagine what it&#8217;d be like if it was polar bears!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Living in the Polar Bear Capital of the world is no easy task, especially during polar bear peak season in October and November each year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take Halloween, for example.&nbsp; Halloween in Churchill is no small event.&nbsp; In fact, it&#8217;s probably the world&#8217;s strangest Halloween celebration &#8211; and it&#8217;s not for fear of ghosts, witches, or monsters.<\/p>\n<p>The festival of Halloween falls at the peak of polar bear season in Churchill, Manitoba.&nbsp; Just think about it &#8211; hundreds of pounds of chocolate, 300+ trick-or-treating children, and polar bears &#8211; not a good mix.<\/p>\n<p>So for days prior to Halloween, Churchill&#8217;s Polar Bear Alert team work tirelessly to keep bears out of the area.&nbsp; The team is made up of wildlife conservation officers who are on-call 24 hours a day during peak polar bear season to deal with any bear issues in and around town.<\/p>\n<p>First, they try to scare off any polar bears by lighting ear-deafening cracker shells.&nbsp; The loud noises usually scare off the bears.&nbsp; Rubber bullets are also sometimes used.<\/p>\n<p>When cracker shells don&#8217;t work or there are certain bears who are causing a lot of trouble around town, the bears are trapped using culver traps.&nbsp; The cylindrical cages are baited with seal meat or oil and rigged to close once the bears step inside.&nbsp; Easily transportable, the bears are tranquilized and the traps are moved.<\/p><div class=\"3a64bb57635b757d04b12bcf0c14b9a3\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9477973674766713\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8885944693\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/images\/articles\/churchillhalloweenjail.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Polar Bear Compond\" title=\"Polar Bear Compond\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" align=\"right\" \/>Caught bears are taken to the Polar Bear Jail or compound where they&#8217;re held for up to 30 days or until the ice on the Hudson Bay freezes.&nbsp; The jail has 30 cells to hold all the inmate bears.&nbsp; They&#8217;re given ice and snow but once most bears realize where they are, they go into a hibernation state of sleep.&nbsp; The bears aren&#8217;t fed but have more than enough fat reserves to tie them over until they&#8217;re released.&nbsp; The reason they&#8217;re not fed is because one year when the bears were fed, they came back looking for more food.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once the bears have &#8220;done their time&#8221; or the ice on the Hudson Bay freezes, they&#8217;re driven or flown out via helicopter to the beaches of the Hudson Bay and released.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the evening of trick-or-treating begins, armed firemen, volunteers, policemen, and rangers from Churchill set up a perimeter around the town while the town&#8217;s 300 children go door-to-door.&nbsp; Children are forbidden to wear white costumes to prevent confusion or panic.&nbsp; Helicopters circle above as an extra safety precaution for the children.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in witnessing all the polar bear madness first-hand in Churchill, Natural Habitats Adventure (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nathab.com\/polar-bear-tours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.nathab.com\/polar-bear-tours<\/a>) has offered polar bear tours to Churchill for over 20 years.&nbsp; Read on to Part 3 discover what it&#8217;s like to go polar bear watching in Churchill aboard a 15-foot tundra buggy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Continue to Polar Bears in Churchill, Part 3:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/articles\/1038\/Polar_bear_watching_on_a_tundra_buggy_in_Churchill,_Manitoba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polar Bear Watching on a Tundra Buggy in Churchill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Looking to book a trip to Churchill, Manitoba? 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