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Welcome to Sur les pas des ours : de la peluche à la vie sauvage

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coup_de_coeur_23.gifMy dream became true : I went to observe bears in their natural environment. 
I invite you to see my photos  made at Brooks in the National park of Katmaï - Alaska clicking here


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©   Geneviève Hamelin - Brooks - Alaska
 
 
Hello and welcome to all the visitors of my website. I made this one as an arctophile (from greek arctos = bear and philos = friend) because I like bears and I have a collection of teddy bears.

This interest was born from a passion for nature and real bears.

The purpose of this site is to collect a lot of documents to make people know the BEAR. I am going to present you in this website, the bear under different topics.

First the teddy bear, testimony and favourite toy of our chidhood, then I will speak about real bears all over the world : their distribution, the different species, the protection stakes and their survival problems, above all for polar bears, because of the climate distur and also the exploitation of some species for their presumed medicinal qualities.

Numerous are the bears which are captured and pulled out from their natural environment.

I would also like to invite you to discover how the bear is represented in Art and culture, and to finish, I would like to make you dream through the drawings, paintings and photographs of some animal photographers and artists who have accepted to make us discover the country of bears " BETWEEN DREAM AND REALITY ".

I would like to add that I have a dream : photographing bears in their natural environment. Who knows ? One day perhaps ?

I will give the last word to Bernard de Wetter through one of his quotations :
" Je laisserai le mot de la fin à Bernard de Wetter à travers l'une de ses citations : " Nous avons tous un ours au fond de notre mémoire...

And to finish this edito, I would like to make a quotation from Bernard de Wetter "We all have a Teddy bear in memory. Witness of our first steps, confidant of our first sorrows or partner of our first angers, he shared our warm nights for a long time,he was our dreams companion. Then we forgot about him...

And today, when we think about the bear - the true one - we often link his picture to the far lands, the wild large areas of Alaska and Canada, or the big mysterious areas and cold forests of Sibéria.



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Note #1 by oliv49 06/11/2007 : 11:36
Joli site dédié à l'univers des ours !!! bonne continuation !!! smile

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TEDDY BEARS

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