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‘No easy fix’: polar bear capital of the world turns to electric buggies to save the bears
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When tourists reach the north Canadian community of Churchill they have long been greeted by two sounds: the howling of sub Arctic winds and the rattle of diesel engines.
Over the years, hundreds of thousands of visitors have come to the “polar bear capital of the world”, in the hopes of spotting the predators. They journey on “tundra buggies” – hulking, spacecraft-like vehicles that rumble over the stark landscape.
Now, one of the town’s tour companies has unveiled the region’s first-ever electric buggy – a vehicle that can move almost silently into areas where the polar bears congregate. The buggy has an estimated range of three days worth of tours and can operate in frigid temperatures.
Frontiers North Adventures, which provided transport
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