A Fragile Future for the Yukon’s Ice Bears | Our Planet Earth | BBC Earth

Ice Bears get their name from the frosty icicles on their coats. When most of the Yukon River freezes over, they flock to the last flowing section of water to catch salmon that spawn there. But what happens to Ice Bears, and to the Indigenous Gwichʼin community who live along the river, when the salmon start to disappear? This is #OurPlanetEarth 🌍 Read more: A BBC Studios Natural History Unit co-production with Wellcome. Subscribe: Watch more: Planet Earth Blue Planet Planet Earth II Planet Dinosaur Welcome to BBC EARTH! The world is an amazing place full of stories, beauty and natural wonder. Here you’ll find 50 years worth of entertaining and thought-provoking natural history content. Dramatic, rare, and exclusive, nature doesn’t ge