Reinstilling pride in the Inuit seal hunt
This month, Inuit launched a new offensive in their battle against the EU seal ban. The 2009 EU law bans the
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Inuit launch new offensive against seal ban
A new pan-Arctic Inuit organization is taking its case on seal hunting directly to the European Parliament on Thursday. The organization
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North Sweden on lookout for raccoon dogs
As the moose-hunting season kicks off in northern Sweden, hunters are being encouraged to keep an eye out for the
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Nunavut allows limited caribou harvest after Baffin Island moratorium
Caribou are an important food source for Inuit on Baffin Island in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut. But declining
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Sweden’s controversial bear hunt season begins
The bear hunting season starts today and up to 300 animals can be shot in Sweden until the end of the
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Nunavut gets EU exemption for seal products
Hunters in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut will now be able to sell their seal products in Europe after
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Appeal filed to prevent wolf hunt in northern Sweden
Conservation groups in Sweden have appealed a decision by the authorities in Dalarna to permit the hunting of a single
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Wolf hunt authorized in North Sweden after attacks on farm animals
After a flurry of wolf attacks that killed dozens of sheep and lambs in Insjön and Sågmyra, in northern Sweden,
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Wolves attack sheep and lambs in North Sweden
This weekend, wolf attacks were responsible for the deaths of a number of sheep and lambs in northern Sweden, in
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Sweden’s wolf committee winds up after lack of interest
The Swedish government has wound up the so-called ‘wolf committee’ after a lack of interest from the organisations which had
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Alaska village seeks disaster relief as walrus harvests decline drastically
As recently as a few years ago, the village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island could expect to harvest 600
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Alaska’s spring whaling season a success despite challenging sea ice
The spring whaling drought Barrow endured two years ago continues to ease, after subsistence whalers in the Arctic community landed nine
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Unique spring bird hunt brings hope of fresh meat after a long Alaska winter
BETHEL — One night after work last week, Pat Samson of Bethel rode his four-wheeler over a bumpy, muddy and
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Sami villages under-report elk hunt kills in Sweden
Local officials with Norrbotten county have called out five of the area’s largest Sami villages for failing to report hundreds
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Mercury levels rising in endangered Arctic gulls: biologist
Only 500 breeding pairs of the Ivory Gull remain in Canada A biologist is suggesting rapidly rising rates of mercury contamination
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