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PETER FROST remembers what first sparked his interest in nature and the environment

A READER asked me the other day what had first got me interested in nature, animals and the environment. 

It took a bit of thought but the memory I kept coming back to was of a baby polar bear (Ursus maritimus) called Brumas.

I was just a toddler when the little bear was born at London Zoo in 1949.

Brumas, the baby polar bear, and his mother Ivy attracted huge crowds to London Zoo

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