Wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan had a suspenseful encounter with a polar bear last summer when the animal tried to claw its way into the plexiglass box he was sitting in during filming for a BBC documentary in Arctic Norway.
Now BBC producer Jason Roberts has come under fire for the incident one Norway official described as "disturbing" to the polar bears, according to several media reports.
Roberts and his crew filmed the bear-centric documentary "The Polar Bear Family and Me" in Svalbard, the northernmost part of Norway where polar bears are strictly protected by environmental regulations. The crew followed a polar bear family throughout three seasons.
During filming, a mother polar bear approached the plexiglass cage that held Buchanan, the documentary's host, and attempted to rip open the box for 40 minutes.
After the documentary aired in January, Svalbard District Governor Lars Erik Alfheim noted that the documentary crew broke Norwegian...
Now BBC producer Jason Roberts has come under fire for the incident one Norway official described as "disturbing" to the polar bears, according to several media reports.
Roberts and his crew filmed the bear-centric documentary "The Polar Bear Family and Me" in Svalbard, the northernmost part of Norway where polar bears are strictly protected by environmental regulations. The crew followed a polar bear family throughout three seasons.
During filming, a mother polar bear approached the plexiglass cage that held Buchanan, the documentary's host, and attempted to rip open the box for 40 minutes.
After the documentary aired in January, Svalbard District Governor Lars Erik Alfheim noted that the documentary crew broke Norwegian...
- 3/20/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
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