The Magazine of The Sierra Club
Overbearing Mom Films Cub’s First Steps Outside the Den
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81 percent of human children under the age of two have an Internet presence. Now this polar bear cub does too. Whether you’re into social media parenting or not, you have to admit, this video is pretty cute.
Thanks to the cub’s mother, who discovered a spycam set up to capture footage for the BBC documentary Polar Bear – Spy on Ice, we get to watch the cub’s first steps out of the den. The spycam was installed by John Downer Productions, an Emmy award-winning production company known for its innovative approaches to filming wildlife. Autonomous cameras disguised as ice let us see how polar bears interact when there are no humans in sight.
What You Can Do
Videos like this serve two purposes. First, they allow us to make jokes about bears taking selfies, which never gets old. But they also remind us of what will be lost if destructive human activities like oil exploration and mining are allowed to continue in the Arctic.
On August 17, President Obama gave Shell conditional approval to conduct exploratory drilling in the Arctic Ocean off the shore of Alaska. Join us in telling President Obama that drilling in the Arctic is not an option. Because we want to see more polar bear home videos. Don’t you?
