Situated along the Severn River near Hudson Bay ... of the world’s total estimated population of 26,000. A polar bear and a cub search for scraps in a large pile of bowhead whale bones (AP ...

While polar bear sightings in the area are common, attacks are “rare but not unheard of,” a police spokesperson told CNN affiliate CTV News.Fort Severn is located near Hudson Bay.Polar bears ...

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(TMX) – A man was seriously injured fighting off a polar ... in Fort Severn, on the northern coast of Ontario, early Tuesday. Police had also been made aware of a possible bear sighting in ...

A Canadian man suffered serious injuries after he jumped onto a polar bear that attacked his wife ... legs during the attack on Dec. 3 in the Fort Severn First Nation in northern Ontario, but ...

A polar bear is pictured here near Fort Severn in this 2021 file photo. Polar bears are a common sighting in the remote First Nation, with bears often raising their offspring close to the community.

A man who “leapt on” a polar bear to save his wife from an attack ... Situated along the Severn River near Hudson Bay, it is home to the Cree Nation and boasts a unique sub-Arctic environment.

A man and a woman in the town of Fort Severn had left their home before 5 a.m. local time to look for their dogs and, while in the driveway, “a polar bear lunged at the woman,” Nishnawbe Aski ...