Inuit hunters are celebrating the defeat of a proposal at an international wildlife meeting that would have forbidden the cross-border trade in polar bear parts.

This exhibit explores the Inuit worldview, based on mutual respect between humans and animals. Through contemporary Inuit carvings and prints, traditional tools and clothing, and filmed interviews ...

Courtesy of Yahoo Travel (2) Most people don’t associate the Arctic with couture…and many people would cringe if told a jacket was made from polar bear (a threatened species), seal, or arctic fox.

Inuit women rank among the most innovative and skilled craftspeople in the world, and this exhibition shows why. The highlight is a display of three stunning beaded amautiit that have recently been ...

Inuit elders Mark and Angie Eetak cut off the fat from the pelt of a polar bear, which was shot days earlier. A single polar bear pelt can sell for over $10,000 – economic salvation for many ...

There are many conflicting views of nanuk. Inuit, researchers, conservationists and others have often been at odds with each other about how polar bear populations should be managed.

This was the case at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Bangkok earlier this month, where the US put forward a proposal for a complete ban in the trade of the ...

Polar bears are at home there -- but dunking means death for polar bear hunters. These are lessons passed down by her Inuit ancestors over centuries of surviving the harshest of environments.

Davis Strait Polar Bear during the summer season in the Torngat Mountains National Park. There are many conflicting views of nanuk. Inuit, researchers, conservationists and others have often been at ...

As Inuit who work within various co-management boards — public governance institutions that incorporate Inuit knowledge of wildlife and the environment into the decision-making of the provincial, ...