florian ledoux

Contest: Landscape in the Arctic
Note: 7) Polar habitat : Most of the time, we sailed between small pieces of pack ice too thin to hold a polar bear, when we encountered a larger piece of ice, with few polar bears on it, the ice was totally melting. Polar bear are in the best situation on shrinking pack ice, or in the worst case lost in a free ice fjord. In both cases the efforts they have to produce to feed themselves or cubs are bigger than they use, pushing them to starvation. The photo reveal the polar bear habitat during summer in Nunavut. They depend on sea ice as a platform not only for hunting, but to rest and move.
Locate: Nunavut Baffin Island
City: Pond Inlet