However, ensuring the long-term viability of Churchill’s polar bear population remains a challenge, and Frontiers North has partnered with non-profit research, education and stewardship organisation Polar Bears International to help protect the bears and their habitat.

At the PBI education centre in Churchill, Joanna Sulich, a behavioural ecologist and consulting scientist, gives us a fascinating insight into polar bears and – more soberly – what the future might hold for them.