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Keywords
Bird colonies
Coastal features
Day
Islands
Kittiwakes
KWCI (GPI)
Nature
Oceans (campaign title)
Outdoors
Rocks
Save the Arctic (campaign title)
Seabirds
Young birds
Documenting Bird Colonies on Bear Island
Black legged kittiwakes are still rearing their chicks after the guillemots have gone. Bjørnoya in Norwegian means Bear Island, but it's rare to catch sight of a polar bear there. The island is in the northern sector of the Barents sea in between Svalbard and the Norwegian mainland. The Arctic island is an important habitat for seabirds, particularly guillemots who use its steep cliffs for raising their young and feed in waters made more fertile by the dynamics of nearby ocean currents.
Unique identifier:
GP0STOJK2
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
21/08/2014
Locations:
Arctic
,
Arctic Ocean
,
Barents Sea
,
Bear Island (Norway)
Credit line:
© Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
Bear Island and Oil Exploration in Barents Sea
The crew of the Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza with resident oil spill expert Rick Steiner, and whale biologist Heike Vester, monitor oil exploration in the Barents Sea, where the wildlife and habitats are under threat, and Bear Island, a unique and pristine bird colony.
Greenpeace is campaigning for a ban on offshore drilling in the Arctic, and for the uninhabited area around the North Pole to be declared a global sanctuary.
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