What It’s Like To Live In A Town That Needs Its Own Polar Bear Jail

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Polar bear waiting for the ice to freeze near Churchill. Kt Miller/PBI

For our final piece celebrating Polar Bear Week, we thought we’d turn our attention to the polar bear capital of the world: Churchill. A former fur trading post then turned military base on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay, Canada, the settlement is now one of the few towns in the world where the bears can be observed in the wild. Only accessible by train or plane, at the height of the season bears can often outnumber people.