Growing numbers of bears exceed ‘co-existence threshold’ and increasingly jeoparde public safety, says government document
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Nunavut’s polar bear population is unsafe, government document says
Excerpts from article by Bob Weber in The Canadian Press, 12 Nov 2018
There are too many polar bears in parts of Nunavut and climate change hasn’t yet affected any of them, says a draft management plan from the territorial government that contradicts much of conventional scientific thinking.
The proposed plan says that growing bear numbers are increasingly jeopardizing public safety and it’s time Inuit knowledge drove management policy.
“Inuit believe there are now so many bears that public safety has become a major concern,” says the document, the result of four years of study and public consultation.
“…in many Nunavut communities, the polar bear may have exceeded the co-existence threshold.”
Polar bears killed two Inuit last summer.
The plan leans heavily on Inuit knowledge, which yields population estimates higher than those suggested by western science….
Scientists say only one population of bears is growing; Inuit say there are nine. Environment Canada says four populations are shrinking; Inuit say none are.
Thanks to Ian Campbell and Dr Klaus LE. Kaiser for this link
‘The reaction of the “scientists” is precisely what one would expect,” says Ian. “After all, what could the people who live around polar bears possibly know about the animals?”
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