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Up close and personal. Churchill, Manitoba is perhaps the best place in North America to view polar bears as they prepare for their annual migration to the polar ice in the Arctic. In late October or November of each year hundreds of bears congregate here as ice is usually first to form on Hudson Bay in this vicinity. Bears spend the winter months on the ice feeding on seals to store up enough fat to last them through the summer. Global warming is an immediate threat to the survival of these great bears as their time on the ice is being cut short by late winter formation and early spring thaw preventing the bears from accumulating sufficient weight to sustain them through the summer.