Do Bears Sleep All Winter?

Welcome to Do Bears Sleep All Winter

In the summer of 2018, I left the FIFA World Cup behind and set off for the shores of 10,000 lakes in Minnesota, USA. I was interning at the North American Bear Center. The aim was simple: see some bears, educate about bears and write as much as I could about bears. What followed were four months of brilliant wildlife and mildly amusing experiences.

When I came back, the wildlife and the experiences were gone. I graduated and started my first job and moved (somewhat predictably) to the lake mottled region of northwest England. The bears and Minnesota’s miles of shoreline were a distant memory but the need to write remained.

There is a real need for accessible and accurate writing about the world’s ecology. If the key to tolerance of wildlife is education, then accessibility is the key to education. I do not claim to any of the above in my writing but rather strive towards it.

Whether or not anyone is reading is another question entirely.

Latest Posts

The panda’s curious role in global pandemics

“If we were anywhere else on Earth, I’d get the binoculars out and look at it.” I called, perhaps disgracefully, across the moors. A friend and I had set off on a long slog up to Cross Fell in the Northern Pennines, aiming to tick off the highest English peaks outside of the Lake District.…

by jdillow Jun 3, 2020Jun 4, 2020

Have you heard about the vaquita?

If a splendidly friendly Martian were to visit Earth and judge the human race’s conservation efforts on social media alone, he may conclude that humanity was a fantastically orientated towards biodiversity and its protection. The ‘net’ seems to have been inundated recently with good news stories about conservation. It may, of course, be that my…

by jdillow May 22, 2020

Why on earth does a red sky at night mean shepherd’s delight?

Thankfully, my Year 9 Biologists have now left the tedium of photosynthesis behind; we have moved onto the joys of ecology. Their task this week was to make a nature documentary in their gardens, using all the key terms we have learnt so far. We’re talking population, species, community – a starter pack in ecology…

by jdillow May 12, 2020May 12, 2020

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