The Copenhagen Ice Bear
The Ice Bear will be carved on Nytorv by Mark and his team from a block of ice that encases its bronze skeleton. When finished at 2pm on Saturday 5 December, it will stand at the head of a visually stunning photographic exhibition that will lead visitors to the events taking place in the WWF Arctic Tent. In touching this sculpture everyone can become sculptors and make a direct connection with the bear and its ice-locked kingdom. We hope that this creative act will bring home to each person how humanity has the power to affect the delicate balance of nature. At 1.8 metres high it is exactly the same in height as the average thickness of the floating sea ice in the Arctic Ocean measured during the Catlin Arctic Survey earlier this year. Scientists have observed that ice under 2 metres thick is almost certainly too thin to survive the summer melting season, leading inevitably to a further shrinking of the remaining sea ice. |
The Ice Bear and the Arctic Tent is an opportunity for the people of Copenhagen and the delegates to the UN Climate Conference to have an experience of the Arctic, a region that is being affected by climate change faster and more severely than almost anywhere else on the planet.
The Copenhagen Ice Bear has been made possible through the generous support of: Main sponsors:
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WWF International Arctic Programme has invited the Ice Bear Project to be the opening event for their Arctic Tent in Copenhagen's Nytorv (New Square) this 5-17 December. 
The Tent will host many different events on the issue of tackling climate change and will include a Science Day, a Youth Day, an Indigenous Peoples Day and an Arts and Culture Day (see 
