Shared by wwfcanada on Oct 13, 2011 WWF-Canada‘s species expert, Dr. Peter Ewins, went up to Tremblay Sound in Nunavut, Canada, to help researchers tag narwhal with GPS radio collars so that they can monitor their movements and analyze how climate change is affecting their...
Protection for Arctic Wildlife Sanctuaries Announced
posted by Rex Turgano
Canada’s Environment Minister John Baird, and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. Acting President, James Eetoolook, today announced the establishment of three new National Wildlife Areas on and around Baffin Island, protecting local species and habitat including the bowhead whale.
Canada Goose – A Local Hero Gives Back to Northern Communities
posted by Rex Turgano
Since our beginnings in 2005, ethiquette has been following the developments at Canada Goose Inc., an extreme outerwear company that had bravely decided to go against the grain and to keep making its products locally when the overwhelming trend was to de-localize to cheap production sites overseas where worker conditions often take a back seat. The success of this company, distributed in over 40 countries and named one of Canada’s fastest growing companies in 2006, blasted the accepted business wisdom that locally-produced goods could never compete with those made in places like China. As American Apparel had proved in the light...
Nunavut Wildlife Resource Centres Coalition
posted by Rex Turgano
The Coalition was established as a partnership between a number of agencies located in Iqaluit with a mandate or interest in wildlife management in Nunavut. This partnership has expanded over the years and now includes 6 locations: the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, the Department of...
Newswire: Ottawa, Inuit to work together on listing species at risk
posted by Rex Turgano
The federal government has agreed to work more closely with Inuit in Nunavut when considering animals to list under the Canada Species at Risk Act. Link to original article: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/12/12/inuit-wildlife.html Related articles Inuit bid for EU seal ban...
Saving the endangered caribou
posted by Rex Turgano
Caribou have been a crucial food source for Canada’s northern indigenous people from time immemorial. But their population is dwindling at an alarming rate, in no small part because of improved hunting equipment — including snowmobiles — as well as exploration work for oil and gas reserves and arctic diamond mines. And now, the slow, relentless escalation of global warming is taking its toll. It is global warming that is threatening a caribou herd known as the Peary caribou, which inhabit the islands of the High Arctic at the southern end of Ellesmere Island. Continue reading the article from the CBC…. Related articles On...
Okay, they’re declining. Now why?
posted by Rex Turgano
Nunavut will hunt fewer polar bears this year COLIN CAMPBELL | October 29, 2007 | Late last month, the government of Nunavut announced it was cutting the annual polar bear hunt in western Hudson Bay amid fears the bear population there is shrinking. The hunt will be cut from 56 bears down to 38, and could go to just eight bears next year, says Nunavut’s Environment Minister Patterk Netser. Read the article… Related articles Manitoba town gets surprise visit from polar bear (thestar.com) Lost? Polar bear spotted in forest in Manitoba (ctv.ca) Nunavut to study landfill problems...
Endangered designation no slam dunk
posted by Rex Turgano
Final determination on Peary caribou to be made by federal cabinet.
Nunavut could resurrect city recycling
posted by Rex Turgano
Sure, you can drop your plastic and glass bottles in the big blue recycling sea-can located in downtown Iqaluit, but it’s just going to end up in the landfill anyway. That could change if a pilot recycling project by the Government of Nunavut gets rolling. Read the article, Nunatsiaq...
Inuit way of life now on thin ice
posted by Rex Turgano
As scientists work to establish the impact of global warming, explorers and hunters slogging across northern Canada and the Arctic ice cap on sled and foot are describing the realities they see on the ground. Read the full article from the Toronto...
Steger to draw attention to melting Arctic
posted by Rex Turgano
Igloolik dog-teamers help document climate change JANE GEORGE A rigorous four-month dog sled trip across Baffin Island. Read the original article from Nunastsiaq Online. Here is one more related article about this story: Adventurer plans youthful trek to Arctic Will Steger is fit and...
Baker Lake fuel storage worries environment department
posted by Rex Turgano
The lack of an appropriate spill plan for five million litres of diesel fuel stored on three barges frozen into Baker Lake concerns Nunavut’s Department of Environment, says official Robert Eno. Related story:...
