Northern Canada: Five things to watch in the Yukon Legislature this fall
Yukon’s Liberals, under Premier Sandy Silver, headed to the government benches on Monday to begin the fall sitting of the
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Finnish conservation group offers bounty to catch wolf poacher
A wolf conservation group is offering 1,000 euros for information leading to the arrest of a poacher who killed a
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Hunter in Nunavut, Canada calls for changes to polar bear rules after fatal summer attacks
A hunter from Arviat, Nunavut (Canadian east-Arctic), says more and more polar bears are taking over traditional Inuit hunting grounds,
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Norwegian blogger posts picture online, gets fined for illegal hunting in Northern Canada
A Norwegian travel blogger and social media personality has been fined $1,000 for hunting a ptarmigan out of season in
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‘Amazing’ archeological find in northwest Canada’s melting ice patches: an intact atlatl dart
At first, Jennifer Herkes didn’t realize what had been found — she thought it was a piece of an atlatl
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Survivor in Northern Canada recalls deadly encounter with polar bears
A Nunavut hunter who survived a polar bear attack that killed one of his friends last week says the encounter
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Hunter in Nunavut, Canada killed by polar bear and cub
A man from Nunavut has been killed in a polar bear attack, according to officials. He was attacked by a
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Finland: hunting restricted for three duck species, but jackdaws now fair game
Finland’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has banned the hunting of two types of diving duck for the next three
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Gov cancels caribou hunt in Northwestern Canada following First Nation’s complaints
The Yukon government has cancelled permits for hunting Finlayson caribou in southeast Yukon this year in response to objections from
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Communities wrestle with shark-bite mystery off Alaskan coast
Sometimes it’s seals with amputated flippers. Or even a sea lion snatched seemingly out of thin air. But for at
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First Nations National Chief candidates tell Indigenous Northern Canadians to ‘exert your sovereignty’
Four candidates running to be National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations were at a forum in Whitehorse on
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Hunters in Arctic Canadian city want to double 2018 polar bear harvest
Iqaluit’s hunters’ organization, in Nunavut, wants to use up unharvested polar bear tags that have accumulated in recent years. Each
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Supreme Court’s rehearing of hovercraft hunter case could test Alaska’s sovereignty
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to rehear the case of an Alaska moose hunter whose use of a hovercraft
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Poachers suspected behind dwindling wolf numbers in Sweden
Sweden’s wolves are suddenly disappearing in large numbers, and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency says illegal killing is the only
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From the Arctic to Atlantic, a photographer documents seal hunting in Canada
A photographer renowned for his images documenting the human face of seal hunting in Quebec and Newfoundland will spend at
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