Dear list,
This is for those of you who may be interested in books about marine mammals in
Greenland.
Senior scientist Erik Born, from the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
has written a book entitled “The White Bears of Greenland”. The book is aimed
at Greenlandic high school students, and gives an overview of how life is for
polar bears. It describes the animal’s biology and concentrates on three
factors which the bears are especially sensitive to: hunting, climate change
and pollution.
There are two other books of the same series that deal with marine mammals,
written by scientists from the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources: “The
walrus in Greenland” (ISBN 8779752217), also by Erik Born and “Greenland’s
Winter Whales, the Beluga, the Narwhal and the Bowhead Whale” (ISBN
8779753000), by Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen and Kristin Laidre.
The books are edited by Illinniusiorfik and sponsored by Aage V. Jensens Fond.
They can be purchased on-line from the Greenlandic bookstore Atuagkat:
http://www.atuagkat.com
There are English, Danish and Greenlandic language versions.
All Best,
Fernando Ugarte
Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
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