Polar bears from Winnipeg moving to Calgary Zoo this fall

The Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo will welcome two polar bears this fall. The two male polar bears – six-year-old Baffin and seven-year-old Siku – will come to Calgary from Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Zoo in mid-September. The pair will live in a newly-built exhibit in the Canadian Wilds area, which is being renamed to Wild Canada. The $31 million project, announced in 2021, marks the first time that polar bears will live at the Calgary Zoo since 1999. "Since we last cared for p