Polar bears in Peterborough...?

A new project will create artificial habitats for Polar Bears...
Melting polar ice-caps and displaced polar bears have become the iconic images of climate change. Human activity has created harmful CO2 emissions, that in turn has caused global warming, increasingly erratic weather patterns and melting ice caps. All this has put the natural habitats of polar bears at risk.

A new project in Peterborough, the city that is aiming to become the UK’s Environment Capital, will see the creation of an artificial habitat for displaced polar bears.

A section of the River Nene Washes will be frozen to re-create the natural habitat of polar bears. A trial will then be held with four zoo reared bears to ensure the project works successfully. Once the trial has been completed, and as long as no major complications arise, a number of wild polar bears will be released into the area.

The Nene Washes is one of the finest areas of floodplain meadows in the UK spanning over 20 kilometres. A section of the site, which has been carefully selected by scientists, has been set aside for the project.

Carbon dioxide will be captured from the city’s factories and processed to create dry ice with a temperature of -80 oC. The dry-ice will then be used to create an artificial Arctic climate in the specified section of the Washes...

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