News of the North

The World Wildlife Fund is calling for a moratorium on polar bear hunting in the Baffin Bay area, due to the existing threats to the bear’s existence. The Nunavut government also believes that the hunt is not sustainable, based on “both Inuit knowledge and scientific work".

Northern hunters and trappers claim that the research is based on old data. If that’s the case, shouldn’t that mean there are even fewer bears than projected?

Learn more about polar bears and the WWF’s conservation efforts here. For more details on polar bear population data, you can read the reports to the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board.