New strategy promotes hunting as cure to Nunavut hunger
A new strategy from the Nunavut Food Security Coalition says helping people hunt and share more caribou, seal and other
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Breaking ice pack sets Alaska hunters’ snowmachines adrift
Thin ice caused a scare for many seal hunters from Kwigilngok when about a dozen snowmachines began floating into the
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Proposal: Use assault rifles in Sweden’s wild-boar hunt
A major wants to enlist soldiers armed with assault rifles in an effort to stem the rapid growth of Sweden’s
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Sweden’s biggest ever seal hunt underway
Sweden’s licensed seal hunt began Wednesday with a record-high number allowed to be shot. 400 gray and harbour seals can
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Canada’s Humane Society says it doesn’t oppose Inuit seal hunt
A spokeswoman for the Canadian arm of the Humane Society International is clarifying the group’s position on the Inuit seal
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Sweden divided on gray seal hunt
Sweden is gearing up for an annual culling of gray seals with conservationists again calling for an end to the
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Landmark Alaska subsistence decision stands
The Katie John lawsuit over subsistence fishing rights is finally over. The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday it will
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Inuit gather in Canada’s eastern Arctic for pro-sealing, anti-Ellen ‘sealfie’
More than two dozen people in Iqaluit gathered at the Four Corners in the city’s downtown to shoot a “#sealfie”
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Canadian politician challenges moral basis of EU seal product ban
The World Trade Organization’s recent decision to uphold a four-year-old European Union ban on seal products has set a dangerous
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Inuit leaders blast EU seal ban as appeal underway in Geneva
Canadian Inuit leaders blasted the ongoing effect of the European Union Seal ban on Arctic peoples on Monday, as an
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Canada’s Air Force rewrites rules after rescuer’s death in Arctic
New regulations may restrict operations when risk to rescuers judged to be too high The Royal Canadian Air Force is
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Yukon man pleads guilty on bison hunt charges
A Dawson City man in Canada’s northwestern Yukon territory has been fined and banned from hunting for at least five
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Search and rescues on the rise in Canada’s eastern Arctic
The number of searches for missing hunters and travellers is on the rise in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut,
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Canada: Dene elder refuses to pay fine for caribou hunt
A Dene elder in Canada’s Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) who had his caribou meat and rifle confiscated has no plans to
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Support hunters to fight hunger in Nunavut, says report
A new study of food security problems in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut is calling for increased support for
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