Family Rest
A polar bear and her three cubs pause in the summer heat, resting after their long journey north along the Hudson Bay coast in Canada. Shrinking sea ice is making it harder for polar bears to hunt and find food to survive in summer.
Photograph: Christopher Paetkau/Wildlife Photographer of the Year
The Final Portrait
A polar bear cub looks into the camera as it accompanies its mother on an unsuccessful hunting trip. There’s a sad story behind this picture, taken on the coast of Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Soon after it was taken, the polar bear and its family went too close to an area of huts, and people forced them away.
Photograph: Nima Sarikhani/Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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