| **News and Events: June 7: Journey to the North - World Wildlife Fund work in the Bering Sea |
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| Fri, June 1, 2007 01:03 PM |
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June 7: Journey to the North - World Wildlife Fund work in the Bering SeaJourney to the North
World Wildlife Fund's Local to Global Actions to protect salmon, seabirds, and polar bears
Thursday, June 7
7 p.m. @ The Mountaineers Building
FREE EVENT!
The Bering Sea is one of the most productive northern marine regions in the world, home to thousands of indigenous residents; thriving commercial fisheries, and charasmatic wildilfe such as sea otters, puffins, and polar bears. The region's unique and important ecosystems include the Arctic ice pack; free-flowing, salmon-rich rivers of Alaska and Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula; expansive wetlands that are critical to migratory waterfowl; deep-water canyons, cold water corals, and more. Today, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is engaged in an ambitious effort to protect these marine resources by addressing primary threats such as climate change, shipping and offshore oil development, and in some areas - illegal and unsustainable fishing.
With a focus on the ecoregion's trans-boundary population of polar bears, Director of WWF''s Kamchatka/Bering Sea Program, Margaret Williams, will present a slideshow and an overview of why the region is special and will describe how WWF works at local, region, and international levels to safeguard the Bering Sea's amazing biodiversity.
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