Svalbard: Wild Land, Wild Ice, Wild Life - Livestream
Join us for an evening with award-winning wildlife photographer, Jodi Frediani who introduces us to Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located north of the Arctic Circle, not far from the North Pole. This cluster of islands is home to polar bears, walruses, reindeer, and arctic foxes, and provides breeding and nesting grounds for thousands of seabirds. Ice covers more than 60% of the land mass, and the remaining tundra, grass, and moss-covered plains slope up toward perilous, high, ragged cliffs. Towering mountain peaks rise dramatically, surrounded by glaciers of blue and black ice. And the Arctic Ocean bathes them all.
Jodi will take us on a photographic voyage circumnavigating Svalbard's largest island, Spitzbergen, where we'll meet many of the wild inhabitants, take in the breathtaking landscapes, and marvel at icebergs, glaciers, and polar ice caps. Once a base for whalers and later home to coal mining, two-thirds of the archipelago is now protected by seven national parks and 23 nature reserves. Only global warming may still be her undoing. It is up to us to treasure this spectacular environment and do what we can to slow the warming of our planet.
Speaker: Jodi Frediana, wildlife photographer
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Tuesday, 05/23/23
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