IQALUIT, Canada -- Doomsday predictions of the polar bear's demise tend to draw an Inuit guffaw here in Nunavut, the remote Arctic territory where polar bears in some places outnumber people. People ...
A polar bear turns to look at a photographer. Two wildlife photographers from Turkey have issued an apology for posting a video to social media in which they criticized Native hunters in Nunavut for ...
Inuit hunter Hjelmer Hammeken spotted a ringed seal near its breathing hole on the Greenland ice. In his white camouflage, he slowly crept towards it then lay down in the snow and waited. When the ...
IQALUIT, Nunavut Territory ” Simon Nattaq lost both feet to frostbite when his snowmobile crashed through the ice, made thin by rising Arctic temperatures. All his gear plunged into the water too, ...
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It was the golden age for the hunters, when polar bear skins could be sold abroad. That ended in 2005 when quotas were put in place to slow the fall in polar bear numbers. This year's quota of 35 had ...