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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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Archives – Dealing with problem polar bears in the Canadian Arctic

19 October 2018 CBC Archives 0 Comments bears, Churchill, conservation, environment, history, Manitoba, polar bears, wildlife

By the time the ice forms on Hudson Bay to take polar bears to the seal-rich feeding grounds to the

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Finland’s endangered Saimaa seal population climbing back

16 October 2018 Yle News 0 Comments conservation, endangered species, Saimaa, Saimaa seal, seals, wildlife

The population of the endangered Saimaa ringed seal has risen to 392 individuals in Finland, according to the Ministry of

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Finnish conservation group offers bounty to catch wolf poacher

27 September 201827 September 2018 Yle News 0 Comments animals, conservation, crime, hunting, wildlife, wolves

A wolf conservation group is offering 1,000 euros for information leading to the arrest of a poacher who killed a

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Hunter in Nunavut, Canada calls for changes to polar bear rules after fatal summer attacks

24 September 2018 Priscilla Hwang, CBC News 0 Comments Arviat, bears, conservation, hunting, Nunavut, polar bears, wildlife

A hunter from Arviat, Nunavut (Canadian east-Arctic), says more and more polar bears are taking over traditional Inuit hunting grounds,

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Canada: This caribou herd’s population has dropped 99 % since 2001

21 September 2018 CBC News 0 Comments caribou, conservation, First Nations, indigenous, Inuit, Labrador, quebec, wildlife

The George River caribou herd is in a critical state, according to biologists from Newfoundland and Labrador (Atlantic Canada) and

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Norwegian blogger posts picture online, gets fined for illegal hunting in Northern Canada

21 September 201821 September 2018 Alexandra Byers, CBC News 0 Comments birds, conservation, hunting, social media, Tonje Blomseth, wildlife, Yukon

A Norwegian travel blogger and social media personality has been fined $1,000 for hunting a ptarmigan out of season in

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Conservation groups hope to educate Canadians with new Arctic marine atlas

19 September 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments animals, climate change, conservation, Ducks Unlimited, education, Oceans North, World Wildlife Fund

Faced with dramatic shifts in the Arctic due to joint pressures of climate change and industrial development, a trio of

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Finland’s national parks popular despite poor maintenance

13 September 2018 Yle News 0 Comments conservation, Infrastructure, Metsähallitus, national parks, nature, parks, tourism

Finnish national parks are in high demand, but about a third of their paths are in moderate or serious disrepair,

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