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From: VisitFinland
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Source: Meryl Pearlstein, MDP Publicity
Published: June, 2009


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ABOVE: A screen capture of the Bearcam's home page. INSET BELOW: Up close and personal with a brown bear in Finland.

"Bearcam" shows brown bears in Finland

World premiere: Bearcam featuring the brown bear streams live video from 6 pm-6 am from the taiga forests in Eastern Finland

Finnish brown bearThe Finnish online service Bearcam allows you to admire Europe's greatest carnivores, the brown bears, as they awaken from winter hibernation. Since May 1st, Bearcam has been streaming live videos of wild bears from the taiga forest in Eastern Finland, near the Russian border.

The Bearcam is installed in the animal observation site of the Wild Brown Bear Company, which arranges animal-watching tours. In tests last summer, the webcam system which films live feeds showed a 95 percent probability of capturing the bears on film. Although brown bears are classified as near threatened in many European countries, the taiga forests in Eastern Finland are home to a large number of them.

Bearcam feeds live videos between 6 pm and 6 am daily. Daytime visitors of the website can browse the video archive. The evergreen taiga forest provides possibilities for guided trips during which one can admire rare wildlife, in particular bears and wolverines.

For more information, see the Wild Brown Bear website at www.wbb.fi.

Wild Taiga, a company that offers wildlife observation tours, can be found at  www.wildtaiga.fi

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Inset photo: Staffan Widstrand for Visit Finland.


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