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Trial starts for man charged with ‘unlawfully’ killing polar bear in northwestern Canada

19 June 2019 Avery Zingel, CBC News 0 Comments bears, hunting, justice, Northwest Territories, NWT, polar bears

A man facing charges for allegedly hunting a polar bear in the Beaufort Delta region without tags is on trial

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Alaskans push for acceptance of walrus ivory, but there’s an elephant in the room

18 June 2019 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, hunting, indigenous, ivory, legislation, Senate, walrus

U.S. federal law prohibits sales of African elephant ivory, but six states have now banned the sale of ivory more

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Canada’s Nunavut territory to get large slice of $40 million federal harvester support program

17 June 2019 Nick Murray, CBC News 0 Comments food, food security, hunting, Inuit, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Nunavut, Nutrition North

A national Inuit organization is pushing for Inuit to get a significant chunk of Ottawa’s promised $40 million for a

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Indigenous participation key to Arctic development, Inuit activist tells Economic Forum of the Americas

13 June 201914 June 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments animal rights, culture, ECONOMICS, food security, health, human rights, hunting, mental health, politics, resources, seal, youth

Full Inuit participation will be key to long-term sustainable development in the Arctic as well as helping the world confront

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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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Effects on narwhal must be clarified before expanding iron ore mine in Arctic Canada

29 April 201929 April 2019 Meagan Deuling, CBC News 0 Comments Baffinland, hunting, indigenous, Inuit, marine mammals, Milne Inlet, mining, narwhal, Nunavut, whales, wildlife

The Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation wants to expand production at its iron ore mine on northern Baffin Island, in Canada’s

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The garbage polar bears get into is getting into them

9 April 2019 Katie Toth, CBC News 0 Comments Alaska, bears, garbage, hunting, Inuit, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, NWT, polar bears, pollution, wildlife

Aluminum foil. Car keys. Candy wrappers. Half a towel. If there was a Canada Food Guide for bears, none of

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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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Nunavik gun-owners will have support to comply with registration legislation, says provincial rep for Arctic Quebec

27 February 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Arctic, Firearms, hunting, law, Makivik

Gun owners in Nunavik, the Inuit region of Quebec, will receive the support necessary to comply with the province’s gun

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Northern Canadian gov tweaks hunting permit lottery to fix system errors

27 February 2019 CBC News 0 Comments hunting, technology, wildlife, Yukon

The Yukon government (northwestern Canada) says its lottery system for hunting permits has been fixed, after problems in 2018. The

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Inuit org wants working group with Quebec gov on firearms legislation

25 February 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Arctic, hunting, James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, JBNQA, law, Makivik, NILCA, Nunavik, Nunavik Inuit Land Claims Agreement

Makivik Corporation, the land claims organization that represents the political interests of Quebec Inuit, wants to revisit Quebec’s firearms legislation

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Caribou and drilling in ANWR: Canadian research critical of U.S. report

25 February 201925 February 2019 Philippe Morin, CBC News 0 Comments Alaska, ANWR, Arctic drilling, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, caribou, First Nations, hunting, indigenous, Inuit, Northwest Territories, NWT, oil, Porcupine Caribou, Yukon

As Canada prepares its final submissions to the U.S. about Porcupine caribou and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, two pieces

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No charges against elder in Arctic Canada for killing polar bear and cub

18 February 201918 February 2019 CBC News 0 Comments bears, hunting, Igloolik, indigenous, Inuit, Nunavut, polar bears, wildlife

Nunavut’s Department of Environment won’t be charging an elder from Igloolik after he shot and killed a mother polar bear

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Authorities in northwest Russia move to protect wild reindeer

18 February 201918 February 2019 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments endangered species, hunting, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk, reindeer, wildlife

Murmansk regional authorities want a permanent ban on hunting. Wild reindeer on the central and eastern part of the Kola

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What a Saami-led project in Arctic Finland can teach us about Indigenous science

11 February 201915 February 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments climate, environment, fishing, hunting, Lapland, Näätämöjoki, Norway, research, Saami, Sami, Science, subsistence

A successful Saami-led, salmon rewilding project on the Näätämö river in Arctic Finland illustrates the success of partnership between Indigenous

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