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Nunavut Tunngavik Launches Polar Bear Hotline
Released | December 14, 2009 | Print this article
(Rankin Inlet, Nunavut) Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. Vice-President of Finance Raymond Ningeocheak today launched a hotline to give Inuit the opportunity to express concerns about polar bears.
NTI wants Inuit to call the toll-free or local telephone numbers and express concerns about polar bears. NTI is collecting traditional knowledge about polar bears and climate change.
NTI set up the hotline following the United States’ attempts to have all trade on polar bear products banned worldwide under the Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species (CITES).
Please call NTI’s toll-free or Iqaluit-based telephone numbers by the end of February. NTI plans to use the information gathered to present at a CITES conference planned for March, 2010.
Toll-free: 1-877-975-4901. Iqaluit: (867) 979-4101.
Kerry McCluskey
Associate Director of Communications
| Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated |
| Tel: (867) 975-4914 |
| Toll-free: 1-888-646-0006 |
kmccluskey |
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December 15th, 2009 @ 17:44
So what happens when you guys shut down over Christmas? How will you present complete data?
December 16th, 2009 @ 11:38
During the Christmas closure there will be an answering machine for people to leave their name and phone number. Once the office is open calls will be returned. The toll-free line will be operational until the end of February.
Some interviews have already taken place. Due to privacy restrictions the data collected is for the use of NTI only.
February 26th, 2010 @ 22:20
Feb. 26. too late for the polar bear hotline.
I once drove within a 100 feet to a walking polar bear before it noticed me, I thought it might be hard of hearing. Helicopters when they chase bears to tag and study them, the sound, well, sounds like a helicopter hovering 50 feet over head for a great deal of time.
Another, a hunter caught a bear out of pity, you see, the animal was starving. Turned out the animal had just been tagged a couple of weeks earlier around the land of Clyde River, at the time it was tagged, it was recorded as healthy, when it got caught around the land of Resolute, it was emaciated. The hunter figured the animal kept running to get as far and as quick as possible from the researcher.