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Finnish petition to ban fishing nets in endangered seal habitats gathers 50,000 signatures

5 July 2019 Yle News 2 Comments conservation, endangered species, ringed seals, seals

A citizens’ initiative calling for a total ban on fishing nets in habitats used by the endangered Saimaa ringed seal

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Fishing ban lifted near habitat of endangered ringed seals in southeast Finland

3 July 2019 Yle News 0 Comments conservation, endangered species, Saimaa Lake, Saimaa seals, seals, wildlife

The annual springtime ban on fishing with nets on Lake Saimaa in southeast Finland ended on Monday. Saimaa is the

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Finland’s wolf population up 10 percent

6 June 20196 June 2019 Yle News 0 Comments animals, conservation, endangered species, wildlife, wolves

Finland’s wolf population is currently estimated to be between 185 and 205 specimens, according to a report complied by Luke,

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Unique freshwater Alaska seals require special conservation efforts, study finds

21 May 201921 May 2019 Emily Blake, CBC News 0 Comments Alaska, conservation, Iliamna Lake, marine mammals, seals, wildlife

New research on the United States’ only known population of freshwater seals has found they’re unique, suggesting special conservation efforts

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Territorial governments in Arctic Canada plan more rigorous caribou management

30 April 201930 April 2019 Avery Zingel, CBC News 0 Comments caribou, conservation, First Nations, hunting, indigenous, Inuit, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, NWT

Nunavut Premier Joe Savikataaq and N.W.T. Environment Minister Robert C. McLeod met with officials and hunters in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, earlier

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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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