An animal welfare group and philanthropic organization are showing live online the migration of polar bears in Canada only previously seen by locals, tourists and scientists.

Charlie Annenberg, a filmmaker and founder of explore.org and leader of the project has installed high-resolution web cameras in a makeshift lodge and tundra buggy in Churchill town, Manitoba focusing on the route of the annual polar bear migration occurring late October until November.

The webcams, which were funded through a $50,000 grant from the Annenberg Foundation, has a view of western Hudson Bay, where the animals hunt seals when it is frozen for kilometres during the onset of the winter season.
Videos of the migrating bears are being streamed on explore.org.

"It's just started to snow here and in the coming days you'll be able to watch the water in the bay actually freeze to ice and the bears walk off to begin their hunt 100 miles off the coast," said Annenberg, according to AFP.

There are an estimated 800 polar bears in the western Hudson Bay area out of the animal's global population of 25,000. Because they gather near Churchill town every year, the region's bears are the most seen and studied group.

A polar bear in Alaska.