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Canada Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 RCI Society Society (Canada) 

‘They shouldn’t be in the community’: Fort Liard resident sounds alarm over bison herds

Anna Desmarais, CBC News
Posted: Monday, March 1, 2021 at 10:44
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One Fort Liard, Northwest Territories (N.W.T.), resident is asking the territory to control the area’s bison population before someone gets

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Environment Environment (Finland) Featured • Zone 3 Finland General 

NGOs seek stricter fishing rules to protect Finland’s endangered Saimaa seals

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 11:32
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New regulations have been proposed to restrict fishing in the habitat of the endangered Saimaa seals, one of the world’s

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Canada General RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Yukon to begin regulation of off-road vehicles in alpine areas

Dave Croft, CBC News
Posted: Friday, January 29, 2021 at 09:41
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The Yukon government is creating three zones where the use of off-road vehicles will be limited to designated trails. They

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Politics Politics (USA) RCI USA 

Indigenous groups in Alaska welcome Biden’s bid to protect critical Bering Sea area

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, January 25, 2021 at 17:11 — Last Updated: Monday, January 25, 2021 at 17:15
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A coalition of Indigenous groups in western Alaska is “celebrating” U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to reinstate the Northern Bering

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General RCI 

In the Arctic, ‘everything is changing,’ massive animal tracking study finds

CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 6, 2020 at 11:58
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Archive of over 200 studies since 1991 reveals climate change impacts on 86 species Animals across the Arctic are changing

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Finland is considering restrictions on things like lakeside cottage construction in an effort to protect the endangered saimaa seal. (iStock)
Environment Environment (Finland) Finland 

Saimaa seal population believed to have grown in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 10:50
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Mild weather and melting ice cover disrupted the spring count, but more pups may have been born than the year

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Environment Environment (USA) 

Alaska group sues to block wolf trapping season on island

The Associated Press
Posted: Friday, October 30, 2020 at 10:00
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An Alaska conservation group filed a lawsuit to stop the state from reopening wolf trapping season on Prince of Wales

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) 

UN’s bleak biodiversity report highlights Canada’s Indigenous protected areas

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 13:45
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Canada’s efforts to set up marine conservation areas in the Arctic and partner with Indigenous and Inuit communities in protecting

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Indigenous government secures $2M to conserve traditional lands in northwestern Canada

CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 6, 2020 at 17:22
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The government of Canada announced Friday it will inject $2 million into the Canada Nature Fund to help conserve Indigenous

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Business Business (USA) USA 

Wells Fargo becomes third major US bank to nix Arctic oil investment

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 12:39
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Wells Fargo says it won’t finance oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The bank’s announcement follows similar policies

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Canadian Indigenous leaders stress need for less “colonial” approach to caribou conservation in North

John Last, CBC North
Posted: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at 12:39 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 13:08
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For the next five days, Colville Lake, N.W.T., is the centre of the Sahtú. Leaders from across the region and

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Canada Society Society (Canada) 

More wolves killed since new government incentives in northwest Canada

Kate Kyle, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 16:49 — Last Updated: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 17:35
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Dozens of wolves were killed by hunters under a new incentive program last year. But a biologist with the territorial

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Northern Canadians want caribou calving grounds protected, WWF says

Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International
Posted: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 11:25 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 13:06
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Populations of barren-ground caribou in Canada’s Arctic are plummeting to the point they may never recover, says Brandon Laforest of

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Environment (Finland) Finland General Science 

Helsinki University christens new vessel for Baltic Sea research

Yle News
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2019 at 15:59 — Last Updated: Monday, October 21, 2019 at 16:08
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A new research vessel was christened in Helsinki last week that will improve and modernize Finland’s Baltic Sea research capabilities.

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

Finland’s endangered Saimaa ringed seal population reaches 400

Yle News
Posted: Friday, October 18, 2019 at 16:07
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Conservationists have succeeded in smashing a target for numbers of the rare and severely endangered Saimaa ringed seal, with more

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