Polar Bear Blog – I’m Okay, You’re Okay | Polar Bear Alley

...story that is rarely reported in mainstream media involves the growing division between the northern and southern perspectives on polar bear populations.

Recently, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) the organization that represents Inuit in the eastern Arctic, sponsored a mass mailing of bumper stickers to all residents of Nunavut. The stickers show a mother and cub with the words ‘Naammaktugut! We’re OK!’ They plan to hand these stickers out at the CITES meeting in Thailand next spring.

While the clamour about starving bears grows in the rest of the world, the Inuit and many northerners feel that polar bear populations are, in fact, stable, possibly even increasing.
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The Inuit for their part are also lobbying for less invasive research methods. There were actually some rumblings of a ban on helicopter-based research a couple years ago. At the very least, Inuit are finally vocalizing what all northerners feel : Polar Bears are being handled too much and this is not good for the species. Science, for its part, has produced several studies saying that their techniques are not harmful to bears…

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US warming easily explained in that time by the warm PDO, and offers the simple test to see if it cools back the next 20-30 yrs