Willamena
16-02-2005, 23:42
http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=canada_home&articleID=1847750
(CP) - Officials in Nunavut are rethinking large increases to polar bear hunting quotas after recent data suggested there aren't as many of the fearsome arctic predators as hunters thought.
"When you see more bears, that doesn't mean there are more bears," said Nick Lunn, a biologist who chaired a recent meeting of international polar bear experts where the new information was introduced.
It was revealed that hunters significantly overestimated at least one population of polar bears. As well, hunters from Greenland have been killing so many bears that even some current quotas are unsustainable.
Cool beans. Not the killing but the scaling back part.
(CP) - Officials in Nunavut are rethinking large increases to polar bear hunting quotas after recent data suggested there aren't as many of the fearsome arctic predators as hunters thought.
"When you see more bears, that doesn't mean there are more bears," said Nick Lunn, a biologist who chaired a recent meeting of international polar bear experts where the new information was introduced.
It was revealed that hunters significantly overestimated at least one population of polar bears. As well, hunters from Greenland have been killing so many bears that even some current quotas are unsustainable.
Cool beans. Not the killing but the scaling back part.