Research by Professor Martha Dowsley points to the benefits of Inuit-organized polar bear sport-hunting in Nunavut.
By AYOUB ANSARI
Lakehead University
Dr. Martha Dowsley has a message for you: “Protecting polar bears does not stop climate change.”
Although polar bears have become a global symbol for climate change, Martha Dowsley believes that over-protecting them will not stop climate change. In her recent research on Inuit-organised polar bear sport-hunting in Nunavut, she argues that polar bear hunting is of economic and cultural benefit to the Inuit culture and that hunting is not having a negative impact on the polar bear population.
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