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Thin ice hampers survey of rare seal dens in southeast Finland

8 April 2019 Yle News 0 Comments conservation, endangered species, Saimaa seals, seals, wildlife

Researchers tracking the endangered Saimaa seal population of the Finnish lake district (southeast Finland) say that conditions are good for

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Sweden’s wolf numbers slide, illegal hunting blamed

19 March 201919 March 2019 Simon Linter, Radio Sweden 0 Comments conservation, endangered species, hunting, poaching, wildlife, wolves

The number of wolves has been reduced from 355 last winter to 305. Marcus Öhman, the head of wildlife management

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Why some northerners will welcome Sweden’s relaxed shoreline protection rules

11 February 2019 Ulla Engberg, Radio Sweden 0 Comments Arjeplog, conservation, Norrbotten

The rules for shoreland protection will be eased in the more scarcely populated parts of Sweden, according to the four-party

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Career criminal was snatching eggs from rare birds around the world – including in Northern Quebec

24 January 201924 January 2019 CBC Radio 0 Comments birds, conservation, crime, endangered species, justice, Kuujjuaq, poaching, quebec, wildlife

When U.K. border officials nabbed 56-year-old smuggler Jeffrey Lendrum at Heathrow Airport in June, he was sporting an unseasonably heavy

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Constitutional challenge mounted for Indigenous man charged with illegal caribou hunting in Atlantic Canada

16 January 201916 January 2019 Jacob Barker, CBC News 0 Comments caribou, conservation, court, First Nations, George River, hunting, indigenous, Innu, justice, Labrador, law

Innu Nation hunters who are in provincial court in Labrador, Atlantic Canada this week are making a constitutional challenge against

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Protestors target Texas company planning seismic survey in Alaska’s Arctic refuge

15 January 201915 January 2019 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, ANWR, Arctic drilling, conservation, energy, gas, houston, indigenous, natural resources, oil, protests, SAExploration, Texas

A group of Native American protestors went to the offices of SAExploration in Houston, Texas Monday to object to work

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Deep snowbanks bode well for Finland’s rare Saimaa seals

14 January 201914 January 2019 Yle News 0 Comments conservation, endangered species, Saimaa Lake, Saimaa seals, seals, weather, wildlife, winter

The endangered Saimaa seals of eastern Finland may be able to nest this spring without human help. In recent years

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Relocating bears won’t fix conflicts with humans, say environment officials in northwestern Canada

25 December 201820 December 2018 Alexandra Byers, CBC News 0 Comments animals, bears, conservation, wildlife, Yukon

Relocating problem bears cannot be seen as a solution to Yukon’s rising number of human/bear conflicts, warn conservation officers with

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First Nation bans Indigenous harvest of declining caribou herd in northern Quebec

7 December 20187 December 2018 Susan Bell and Betsy Longchap, CBC News 0 Comments caribou, conservation, Cree, First Nations, George River, hunting, Innu, Inuit, Labrador, Leaf River, Naskapi, quebec

The Cree Nation Government has voted in favour of a ban on Cree hunters harvesting caribou from the George River

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Inuit and Ottawa reach agreement in principle on marine conservation area in Northwest Passage

5 December 20187 December 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments conservation, indigenous, Inuit, Lancaster Sound, Northwest Passage, Nunavut, oceans, PJ Akeeagok, Qikiqtani Inuit Association, Tallurutiup Imanga

The federal government and the Inuit have reached another milestone in creating Canada’s largest marine conservation area in the northeastern

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Ottawa considers listing Labrador caribou herds as at-risk species

23 November 201823 November 2018 CBC News 0 Comments caribou, conservation, endangered species, hunting, indigenous, Innu, Labrador, wildlife

Conservation officials are trying to figure out how to reverse dwindling caribou numbers in Labrador, in Canada’s Maritimes, without impeding

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Communities in Canada’s east-Arctic say Inuit lives need to be protected over polar bear population

14 November 201816 November 2018 Sara Frizzell, CBC News 0 Comments animals, Arviat, bears, conservation, endangered species, hunting, Inuit, Iqaluit, Naujaat, Nunavut, polar bears, wildlife

In communities along the west coast of Hudson Bay, Nunavummiut are both scared and angered by the increasing number of

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Climate change threatens Arctic fox’s future in Nordic nations

5 November 20189 November 2018 Yle News 0 Comments animals, Arctic fox, conservation, endangered species, mammals, wildlife

Despite being legally protected from hunting and persecution for several decades, the adult population of the Arctic fox in the

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Researchers track pollution generated abroad for Swedish goods

2 November 2018 Loukas Christodoulou and Jonas Löfvenberg, Radio Sweden 0 Comments agriculture, conservation, industry, pollution

For the first time scientists have delivered a way to make sure that Sweden doesn’t simply export its pollution to

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Climate change casts doubt on future of Finland’s forest industry

31 October 201831 October 2018 Yle News 0 Comments climate change, conservation, forestry, forests, snow, weather

Forestry is a big industry in Finland and its seedling farms play a major role in keeping the sector alive

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