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Arctic Indigenous food culture takes the day at international cookbook awards

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 15:44 — Last Updated: Friday, June 1, 2018 at 13:01
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A book showcasing the recipes of  Indigenous peoples from across the Arctic took the day at the Gourmand International Cookbook

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VIDEO: Arctic Hunting Now

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, January 20, 2017 at 18:10 — Last Updated: Friday, January 20, 2017 at 20:21
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On a recent Eye on the Arctic reporting trip to Nunavut, we ran into a young hunter named Robin Aupilaq Avaala.

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Northwest Alaska caribou herd may finally be growing after steep decline

Mike Campbell, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 19:29
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The steep population slide of what was once Alaska’s largest caribou herd may finally be bottoming out. Lincoln Parrett, a

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General Politics (Canada) 

Caribou or development? Question debated in Arctic communities

Radio-Canada
Posted: Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 16:24 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 17:00
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For years there has been concern about the rapidly declining caribou herds across Canada. According to World Wildlife Fund-Canada, the

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The Arctic & COP21:Week in Review

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, December 7, 2015 at 14:34 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this

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Pat Samson got three geese and a tundra swan on Saturday, May 2, 2015, hunting about eight miles outside of Bethel. (Lisa Demer/Alaska Dispatch News)
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Unique spring bird hunt brings hope of fresh meat after a long Alaska winter

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, May 4, 2015 at 13:34 — Last Updated: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 20:39
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BETHEL — One night after work last week, Pat Samson of Bethel rode his four-wheeler over a bumpy, muddy and

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There are many different caribou herds in regions all across Canada, but most are experiencing dramatic declines. While habitat loss and industrial activity are listed as a major concern, increased pressure from hunting in order for meat and fish to be sold online has also become a concern. This was the most retweeted story on Eye on the Arctic this week. (Nathan Denette/Canadian Press)
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Is social media contributing to wildlife decline in Canada’s Arctic?

Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, October 20, 2014 at 15:27 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at 21:06
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New warnings are being made about using social media to sell wildlife meat and fish online. On a Nunavut Territory

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(Courtesy Ducks Unlimited Canada)
Environment Environment (Canada) Photo Galleries Special Features 

Slideshow: The secrets of Manitoba’s boreal forests

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, July 11, 2014 at 10:22 — Last Updated: Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 10:45
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When most people think about Canada’s province of Manitoba, they think about prairies. But in reality, Manitoba is home to

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Dr. Tatsuo Sweda, de l'université de Nagoya au Japon devant un tronc fossilisé près du Fjord Strathcona sur l'île d'Ellesmere au Nunavut en 1990. (Courtoisie Dr. Jim Basinger)
Canada Society Society (Canada) Special Features 

Where Arctic camels once roamed, coal mining can wait

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 at 12:51
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A coal exploration project proposing to tread the same ground as the ancient fossil forests on Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island has

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A new study says that hunting in the Northwest Alaska community of Wainwright has been made more difficult in recent years thanks to rough weather shortening the windows available to bag whales and caribou. (Ben Anderson / Alaska Dispatch)
Environment Environment (USA) Special Features USA 

Weather changes disrupt subsistence hunt in Arctic Alaska

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at 10:29
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Opportunities to safely hunt whales and caribou in one northwestern Alaska village have diminished because treacherous winds have become more

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(Photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / Alaska Dispatch)
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Commentary: Why close a swath of Alaska if outsiders seldom hunt there anyway?

Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 11:13
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What sounds like a controversial ban that would prevent most Alaskans, not to mention all other Americans, from hunting caribou

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Un loup du Yukon hurle (Parcs Canada)
Canada Environment Environment (Canada) 

Rare wildlife scenes caught on camera in Canadian Arctic

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 09:24

A pilot project using remote camera technology is capturing spectacular and enlightening views of the unique wildlife in one of

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Quebec's Cree are worried about the future of the woodland caribou herds near Broadback River. (Aurelie B. Lemieux, Cree Regional Authority)
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Cree campaign to protect North Quebec river

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, April 15, 2013 at 16:22
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Cree in the Canadian province of Quebec are calling on the provincial government to do more to protect the Broadback

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Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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