Platinum
PBI recognizes those whose annual cash or in-kind contributions are $100,000 or more.
Canada Goose
Frontiers North's Tundra Buggy® Adventure
Holt Renfrew
Lowepro
Volkswagen Japan
Gold
PBI recognizes those whose annual cash or in-kind contributions are $50,000 or more.
Calm Air
ConocoPhillips
Ecke Ranch
Silver
PBI recognizes those whose annual cash or in-kind contributions are $25,000 or more.
45 North Films
Bering Time
Graphic Services
Natural Exposures Photography
Bio Design
Portico Group
Poseidon Arctic Voyages
Sheraton Four Points Winnipeg Airport Hotel
Bronze
PBI recognizes those whose annual cash or in-kind contributions are $10,000 or more.
Feather Industries
Imperial Enterprises Inc., Japan
Jamieson Laboratories Ltd.
Lazy Bear Lodge
Solid Wear
Tamarack Rentals
Platinum
Canada Goose
Canada Goose makes the warmest parkas on the planet. Every year, the company donates special PBI Expedition Parkas to our Research Advisory Council scientists and other team members. The clothing helps keep them warm even in the fierce cold of the High Arctic. Canada Goose also donates Chilliwack Parkas for use by our Leadership Camp students and instructors, as well as our volunteers and support staff. The purchase of either parka includes a donation to PBI and a PBI membership.
Frontiers North's® Tundra Buggy Adventure
A longtime supporter of PBI, every year Frontiers North's Tundra Buggy Adventure generously supports our Leadership Camps by donating nights on its remote Tundra Buggy Lodge to campers and educators. They also donate the use of a mobile classroom—the famous BuggyOne for our PBI Tundra Connections webcasts and video conferences that link educators with students and groups all over the world.
FNTBA also supports PBI’s other Churchill-based initiatives, including PBI Field Ambassadors who provide free on-buggy lectures and PBI fall-edition newsletter distribution. In addition, FNTBA makes a cash donation each year to PBI in the form of one-year memberships to each of its Specialist and Enthusiast level guests. In 2008, they provided a prize of four free trips to Churchill for our 2008 Project Polar Bear Contest winners, a $20,000 value.
FNATBA is a family organization led by Merv Gunter, wife Lynda, and son John, who have deep roots and a strong commitment to the Churchill, Manitoba community. Merv is a member of our Stewardship Advisory Council; his special focus is on eco-tourism and human impact on polar bears.
http://www.frontiersnorth.com/
Holt Renfrew An iconic Canadian company, Holt Renfrew has partnered with another PBI Platinum Sponsor, Canada Goose, to sell a limited-edition Canada Goose toque during the holiday season. A portion of the proceeds were donated to PBI to help support our efforts on behalf of polar bears, the iconic symbol of the Canadian North.
Lowepro
A key corporate sponsor of PBI, Lowepro is internationally known for its purpose-built, professional-grade camera bags, backpacks, shoulder bags, and other protective cases. Founded more than 40 years ago by photographers, photo professionals, inventors, designers, and lovers of the natural world, Lowepro takes the words, "The Trusted Original," to heart. Lowepro underwrites the PBI Polar Population Studies and sponsors our annual Project Polar Bear contest.
In addition, Lowepro has set a corporate standard by designing two collections of bags made from up to 95% Cyclepet®, a 100% post-consumer recycled material. While thousands of people are ardent recyclers, the fact is that unless these recycled materials are used for new products, the recycling doesn’t help all that much. The key is for all of us to shop carefully and purchase products made of recycled products whenever possible. Lowepro understands this act of stewardship and strives to tread more lightly on the planet by using materials that would otherwise end up in warehouses or landfills. Its support of PBI helps protect, preserve, and create awareness about fragile places, creatures, and communities.
Volkswagen Japan
Volkswagen Japan coordinated its PBI sponsorship with the launch of its new, energy-efficient Polo vehicle. In addition to a monetary contribution to help underwrite PBI's research and education efforts, the company has launched an environmental awareness campaign, Think Blue. It includes the need to reduce carbon emissions to help save polar bear habitat.
Gold
Calm Air
Based in Thompson, Manitoba, the Hub of the North, Calm Air connects Churchill and other northern communities with Winnipeg. The company helps support our educational programs in Churchill, including PBI Leadership Camp and PBI Tundra Connections® broadcasts, by offering discounted flights to participants, staff, volunteers, scientists, and educators.
Conoco Phillips
ConocoPhillips has been an important supporter of field research since 2006, including our maternal den study and census counts. Their determination to understand the numbers of polar bears, their habits, and their movements is critical for saving their arctic habitat.
www.conocophillips.com
Ecke Ranch
Ecke Ranch is the primary supplier of the world’s poinsettia cuttings. They recently developed an all-white version and call it the Polar Bear Poinsettia. This product helps bring worldwide attention to the challenges confronting polar bears and contributes to stewardship within communiies.
www.ecke.com
Silver
45 North Films
Award winning cinematographer, John Shier donates his time to PBI to film polar bears in Churchill. 45 North Films is committed to using the art of filmmaking to give audiences rare glimpses of nature and encourage the public to protect wilderness and share the landscape with wildlife.
Bering Time
Bering's limited edition Time to Care watches are dedicated to the protection of polar bears: the undisputed kings of the Arctic who are threatened by arctic sea ice losses due to climate change. BERING has designed two SLIM CERAMIC watches with black and white ceramic elements in a brilliant gold tone and matt IP gunmetal to help the bears. The watches are a limited edition of 2,000 units. BERING will donate 100% of the net profits to Polar Bears International for every watch in the special edition that it sells.
www.beringtime.com
Graphics Services
Graphic Services of Lavonia, Georgia, generously donates both time and materials on print projects for PBI
Natural Exposures Photography
Award-winning photographer and PBI friend Daniel J. Cox of Natural Exposures Photography and PBI Media Advisory Council member generously donates photographs for use in our communications materials, particularly this website. He also created a series of photographs of PBI Research Advisory Council members conducting field research on polar bears and donated them for use in PBI Arctic Ambassador Centers.
www.naturalexposures.com
Bio Design
Bio Design is an award winning web company specializing in online solutions. With over 10 years in the web industry, their experienced team specializes in results driven digital online multimedia solutions. Bio Design invents creative new ways to solve everyday problems through digital means. They explore unique new ways to solve industry related challenges by creating subscription based online software products that streamline workflow increasing everyday productivity for customers. Bio Design has developed a name for themselves in the tourism industry working for such clients as Frontiers North and Tourism Dauphin. Bio Design has branched out into other industries to assist clients in solving other complex digital online challenges in a variety of areas including; manufacturing, retail, pharmaceutical, insurance, financial and consulting.
The Portico Group
The Portico Group is an interdisciplinary design firm comprised of architects, landscape architects, and interpretive planners. They specialize in spaces for community and informal education, including zoos and aquaria, public gardens, museums and visitor centers, and parks and recreation facilities. Working with mission-driven clients worldwide, Portico’s zoo and aquarium projects include the New York Aquarium, National Zoo in Washington, D.C., Minnesota Zoological Gardens, and Calgary Zoo, to name a few. These designs introduce visitors to the actions and motivations of animals, the value of environmental stewardship, and most important, a world full of natural wonder. Recently, they helped PBI through an in-kind donation of design work for the polar bear exhibit at the Alaska Zoo.
Poseidon Arctic Voyages
As a member of the Association of Russian Polar Explorers, Poseidon Arctic Voyages pledges to make its own contribution to the development and furthering of arctic science research. The company actively encourages and supports participation in its voyages by naturalists and scientists engaged in arctic research and endeavors to promote this research by offering them a platform from which to perform theirresearch and a forum with which to voice their unique understanding of this delicate and ever-changing land mass. Preservation of the arctic habitat and the polar ice cap are environmental imperatives and the responsibility of all. They accept this tenet and through their work help their passengers understand the importance of preserving our one unique Earth.
Sheraton Four Points Winnipeg Airport Hotel
Every fall, the Four Points by Sheraton--located just steps away from the Winnipeg Airport--donates hotel accommodations to PBI Leadership Camps’ attendees and educators who overnight there before traveling to Churchill. They also donate accommodations to our support staff and scientists. Without their help, many of our fall programs in Churchill would not be possible.
www.starwoodhotels.com
Feather Industries
Feather Industries Canada is proud to support PBI and its cause to conserve polar bears and their habitat. This includes not only a monetary contribution, but a commitment to a strong moral and ethical corporate policy. All the down and feathers that they process are a by-product of the poultry industry and all animals are treated in a fair and humane way. They also work hard to minimize their impact on the environment through all aspects of production and processing, including recycling up to 90% of the water utilized during the processing of down and feathers.
Imperial Enterprises Inc., Japan
Jamieson Laboratories Ltd.
Jamieson Laboratories is Canada’s oldest and largest manufacturer and distributor of natural vitamins, minerals, concentrated food supplements, herbs and botanical medicines, with no animal testing. Their donations to PBI help support our research, stewardship, and education programs.
www.jamiesonvitamins.com
Lazy Bear Lodge
Lazy Bear Lodge offers the friendliest accommodations in Churchill, the polar bear capital of the world, plus polar bear tours up close and personal in their natural environment. The lodge includes handcrafted log buildings, with 33 log cabin rooms and the personal service of a family-owned lodge.
www.lazybearlodge.com
Tamarack Rentals During the fall polar bear season, Tamarack Rentals provides a discount on transportation rentals that allow all of our programs to run smoothly in Churchill.
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