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TORONTO, CANADA (Toronto Star) - The government of Nunavut says it has wonderful news for those worried about the decrease in the polar bear population. After sending planes and helicopters to survey the Western Hudson’s Bay area, Nunavut Tunngavik reports that the frosty white bears aren’t really in peril, despite dire warnings from environmental experts. Really?
“There are concerns about the effects of global warming,” allows Drikus Gissing, Nunavut’s director of wildlife. “But they are not endangered.” In fact, he says, there are about 1,000 bears in the Western Hudson Bay area, up from the 935 estimated in 2004.
Hold on a minute. Groups such as the World Wildlife Fund Canada say the Nunavut survey doesn’t state the whole story. Over the past few decades the bears have lost six weeks of hunting time due to the late freeze and early thaw of sea ice. This affects their health and the number of cubs, explains Peter Ewins, the WWFC’s director of species conservation. “No ice, no bears,” he says.
The news about healthy polar bears reflects a bit of self-interest on the part of Nunavut. It wants to increase the quota for hunting bears, a profitable venture for the Inuit. Hard to shrug off 30 years of studies by environmentalists, though. No bears, no hunt.
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