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Paul Nicklen wants everyone to know what is going on up north. He wants the people to realize what the animals up there are going through. His photography is not only amazing and inspiring, but it causes one to truly care and be interested.
The polar bears are his most popular topic, as he recently just published new pictures and information about them. On his social medias, he posts about the polar bears along with climate issues in the north. Through his social medias (listed below) he is trying to spread the word to all. Nicklen uses his social medias as an advantage. He is actively posting things on all his socials medias.

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The latest Tweets from Paul Nicklen (@PaulNicklen). Follow @Sea_Legacy for the most important work of my life. Salish Sea, B.C., Canada

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Paul Nicklen Photography, Nanoose Bay, BC. 97,685 likes · 4,714 talking about this. www.paulnicklen.com Paul uses his camera to reveal the nature of the changing polar regions due to the effects of a...

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Paul Nicklen Gallery (@paulnicklengallery) * Instagram photos and videos

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36.7k Followers, 156 Following, 185 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Paul Nicklen Gallery (@paulnicklengallery)

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Paul Nicklen Gallery | Artists, Art for Sale, and Contact Info | Artsy

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The Paul Nicklen Gallery was founded as a vehicle for conservationist photographers to display the beauties of the natural world while giving back to a charity organization of their choice.

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Paul Nicklen is a famous Canadian photographer who is known for capturing the effects of global warming. He works with National Geographic and Sea Legacy. He recently published a video of a starving polar bear that is going wild. He also is a very inspirational speaker and recently did a TED Talk. Nicklen's goal through his photography, is to spread the word about how much animals in the north depend on icy conditions.

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Paul uses his camera to reveal the nature of the changing polar regions due to the effects of a warming planet.

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Paul Nicklen grew up on the Baffin Islands in Nunavut, Canada by the ice fields and frigid water. As he grew up he learned how to predict weather and live in the very cold conditions. Today, he captures the climate changes and the effect on the animals there. His recent release of Polar Obsessions, which really captures what the animals are going through.
Study climate when he was young has benefitted him today. The second link below is stories by Sea Legacy. It has multiple stories, but the one about the polar bears is the most recent one. It has amazing photography from National Parks and other places around Canada.

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The Arctic is in Paul Nicklen's blood. Born and raised on Baffin Island, Nunavut, he grew up in one of the only non-Inuit families in a tiny native settlement amid the ice fields, floes, and frigid seas of Northern Canada.

At an age when most children are playing hide-and-seek, he was learning life-and-death lessons of survival: how to read the weather, find shelter in a frozen snowscape, or live off the land as his tribal neighbors had done for centuries.

Today Nicklen is a naturalist and wildlife photographer uniquely qualified to portray the impact of climate change on the polar regions and their inhabitants, human and animal alike.

In a wise and wonderful intertwining of art and science, his bold expeditions plunge him into freezing seas to capture unprecedented, up-close documentation of the lives of leopard seals, whales, walruses, polar bears, bearded seals, and narwhals.

Bathed in polar light, his inspiring and amazing images break new ground in photography and provide a vivid, timely portrait of two extraordinary, endangered ecosystems.

Hardcover

240 pages, 150 color photographs

13 3/4" x 10 3/4"

© 2009

Paul Nicklen has been published in magazines around the world, including seven articles for National Geographic. He began his career as a wildlife biologist and took up photography fifteen years ago with the desire to bridge the gap between scientific research and public knowledge on wildlife subjects and climate change.

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The Arctic is in Paul Nicklen's blood. Born and raised on Baffin Island, Nunavut, he grew up in one of the only non-Inuit families in a tiny native settlement amid the ice fields, floes, and frigid seas of Northern Canada.

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Paul Nicklen: Animal tales from icy wonderlands

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Diving under the Antarctic ice to get close to the much-feared leopard seal, photographer Paul Nicklen found an extraordinary new friend. Share his hilarious, passionate stories of the polar wonderlands, illustrated by glorious images of the animals who live on and under the ice.

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Paul Nicklen's truly has a passion for the north. He wants to show people the beauty and inspiring animals and nature up there. Nicklen also wants people to care and realize the pain that the polar bears and other animals are facing. He wants them to feel something and raise awareness through his photography.

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Conservationist Paul Nicklen recorded this devastating video of a polar bear struggling to survive in a warming Arctic - and Nicklen says it's so wrenching that "it rips your heart out of your chest." Nicklen hopes to motivate action to save the bears and their polar climate. If that fails, he hopes to at least document this tragic ecological period. "When scientists say bears are going extinct, I want people to realize what it looks like," said Nicklen in an interview with National Geographic. "This is what a starving bear looks like."

Polar bears require solid sea ice to hunt its most essential prey, seals. If there is no sea ice, the bears have nothing to stand upon as they hunt for the mostly aquatic mammals. Polar bears are adapted for a food-free season of 3 to 4 months, the period during which the sea ice has historically melted in the Arctic. However, as climate change has extended the ice-free period in the Arctic, polar bears have suffered. Although the bears are not currently considered an endangered species, they are threatened and may slip into endangered status if their population continues to decline.
Related: "You had to live it to believe it" - hundreds of polar bears rush to feast on one whale carcass
Commentators on Nicklen's video have questioned why he did not step in to help the starving bear, who spends much of the video desperately searching for something to eat. "Of course, that crossed my mind," said Nicklen, according to the New York Times. "But it's not like I walk around with a tranquilizer gun or 400 pounds of seal meat." Feeding wildlife is also illegal in Canada, where the footage was taken. To effectively save the polar bears, rapid action must be taken to address climate change by shifting to a clean energy economy. Still, even as polar bears suffer an existential threat from melting sea ice, life seems to be finding a way; there are reports of polar-grizzly bear hybrids that have emerged as the two species increasingly share territory.

Via New York Times

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Video of starving polar bear 'rips your heart out of your chest'

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View Slideshow Conservationist Paul Nicklen recorded this devastating video of a polar bear struggling to survive in a warming Arctic - and Nicklen says it's so wrenching that "it rips your heart out of your chest." Nicklen hopes to motivate action to save the bears and their polar climate.