Posted: 9/18/2015 Updated: 9/19/2015
Update Of 9/19/2015
After I wrote my blog post, I discovered that National Review also had a critical article about this picture here. In this article, they were arguing this could be an ill or injured polar bear or that there always exist emaciated looking members of any animal population.
Trigger
This photo, which was recently widely distributed on social media.
Here is a brief article about this picture The Polar Bear Photo Seen around the World. According to this article the photographer is identified as Kerstin Langenberger. The photographer is a German female. Here is her story about the picture in German language (here is the english version). She also claims she had seen other starving and starved to death polar bears.
Propaganda Photo
Most likely this is just one more of the many propaganda photos of polar bear plight.
I did not see exactly when and where this photo was taken. The photographer claims it was taken on the island of Spitsbergen (Svalbard) archipelago, but she does not say in her online story when she took this photo. Where there any witnesses present when this photo was taken? Was this bear just returning from hibernation and therefore not well fed?
The photographer studied environmentalism and is affiliated with Greenpeace according to her website.
According to Wikipedia about 3,000 polar bears live on that archipelago and they are a major tourist attraction. Could it be an overpopulation of polar bears?
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