Pax Arctica Initiative 2008
 
In the summer of 2008, the Pax Arctica Team joined scientists on Baffin and Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic and testify to the on-going transformations of this part of the world and its consequences on Climate Change and world geopolitics.
The Pax Arctica team included children from several countries as representatives of future generations, will convene in a symbolic gesture, on Ward Hunt ice shelf, the northernmost area of the Canadian Arctic.
News on the Missions Section:
Witness to the Losses of Arctic Ice Shelf
Greenland 2007
Five weeks of expedition and scientific adventure in a just released 400-photo book:
Greenland - Impressions :
Arctic Adventure - Realities of Global Warming
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"The pictures really bring up feelings that I have for Antarctica that are impossible to describe in words. Beauty, awe, cold fright..."
"Some fantastic pictures in it – must have been an exciting experience"
Status of the endangered ivory gull, Pagophila eburnea, in Greenland
http://www.springerlink.com/content/d05881844682861t/
Abstract The ivory gull, a rare high-Arctic species whose main habitat throughout the year is sea ice, is currently listed in Greenland as ‘Vulnerable’, and as ‘Endangered’ in Canada, where the population declined by 80% in 20 years. Despite this great concern, the status of the species in Greenland has been largely unknown as it breeds in remote areas and in colonies for which population data has rarely, if at all, been collected. Combining bibliographical research, land surveys, aerial surveys and satellite tracking, we were able to identify 35 breeding sites, including 20 new ones, in North and East Greenland. Most colonies are found in North Greenland and the largest are located on islands and lowlands. The current best estimate for the size of the Greenland population is approx. 1,800 breeding birds, but the real figure is probably >4,000 adult birds (i.e. >2,000 pairs) since all colonies have not yet been discovered and since only 50% or less of the breeding birds are usually present in the colonies at the time the censuses take place. Although this estimate is four to eight times higher than that previously arrived at, the species seems to be declining in the south of its Greenland breeding range, while in North Greenland the trends are unclear and unpredictable, calling for increased monitoring efforts.
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