OTTAWA, ON -- August 22, 2008 -- 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. The Inuit Impact and Benefit Agreement for National Wildlife Areas and Migratory Bird Sanctuaries in the...
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Canada's Government Announces Protection for Arctic Wildlife Sanctuaries
August 21, 2009 10:05 AM
OTTAWA, ON -- August 22, 2008 -- Canada's Environment Minister John Baird, and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. Acting President, James Eetoolook, ...
Canada Goose - A Local Hero Gives Back to Northern Communities
July 16, 2009 4:54 AM
Since our beginnings in 2005, ethiquette has been following the developments at Canada Goose Inc., an extreme outerwear company that ...
Newswire: Ottawa, Inuit to work together on listing species at risk
December 12, 2007 10:04 PM
The federal government has agreed to work more closely with Inuit in Nunavut when considering animals to list under the ...
Saving the endangered caribou
November 15, 2007 5:48 AM
Caribou have been a crucial food source for Canada's northern indigenous people from time immemorial. But their population is ...
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Nature & Wildlife Conservation
Okay, they're declining. Now why?
Shared on: October 30, 2007 5:33 AM
Nunavut will hunt fewer polar bears this year COLIN CAMPBELL | October 29, 2007 | COLIN CAMPBELL--> Late last month, the government of Nunavut announced it was cutting the annual polar bear hunt in western Hudson Bay amid fears the...
Nature & Wildlife Conservation
Endangered designation no slam dunk
Shared on: June 22, 2007 9:53 PM
Final determination on Peary caribou to be made by federal cabinet JOHN THOMPSON Nunavut residents will be able to comment on the federal government's proposal to list Peary caribou as an endangered species this fall. Nunatsiaq News 2007-06-22...
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Nunavut could resurrect city recycling
Shared on: April 27, 2007 9:44 AM
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...
Climate
Inuit way of life now on thin ice
Shared on: April 16, 2007 10:57 AM
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......
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Steger to draw attention to melting Arctic
Shared on: February 19, 2007 11:22 AM
Igloolik dog-teamers help document climate change JANE GEORGE A rigorous four-month dog sled trip across Baffin Island’s mountains and glaciers awaits Nunavut dog-teamers Theo Ikummaq, Lukie Airut and Simon Qamaniq. Nunatsiaq News...
Waste
Baker Lake fuel storage worries environment department
Shared on: January 9, 2007 8:44 AM
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....
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