A new study has found that levels of contaminants, including lead, mercury and PCBs, are all dropping in the bodies of some aboriginal mothers, suggesting that global efforts to reduce toxins accumulating in Arctic food animals may be paying off. We found that the young expectant women were consuming more traditional food and their body burden of contaminants had reduced," said Barb Armstrong, who will present the study next week at a conference in Lake Louise, Alta. "It means that they're healthier and they don't have to worry about long-range contaminants in any of their traditional diet.
According to the three territorial governments, the groups have moved too slowly to protect the animals. Biologists have put the blame firmly at the feet of a warming Arctic climate and industrial development - including logging, road building, and oil and gas exploration.
I stood there, overwhelmed and in complete bliss, imagining the face of the biology teacher when he sees the new contributions to the school's "library." However, that was not the end of it. The owner continued over to the dictionary section and pulled off the shelf his absolute biggest dictionary, followed by three more grammar books. He then headed to the picture-book section and found a beautiful hardcover book of Arctic animals -- something my students have never seen in their lives. Next, he went to the atlases and selected the nicest atlas featuring Canada and the world. He thrust it into my hands saying, "This one is necessary, it promotes Canada." Lastly, he decided it was time for novels and began pulling novel after novel off the shelf until there were at least 12 novels pile...
... Inuit homelands across the circumpolar Arctic, stretching from Chukotka to Greenland, is Inuit N... seasonal rhythms of migrating wildlife of animals and conformed to age-old traditions of hunting and...
Recent research on Arctic contaminants suggests the rapid increase in mercury concentrations in whales, seals and bears has more to do with how those animals are feeding in an Arctic that's rapidly losing its summer ice. We don't want to let the industrial polluters off the hook, but we now think climate change is the culprit," says [Gary Stern], the chief scientist aboard the Canadian Coast Guard research vessel Amundsen, an icebreaker overwintering in Arctic waters south of Banks Island in the Northwest Territories. "It looks like a mercury mystery, that's for sure," says Stern. "But those are not mutually exclusive conditions.
... sections: "People," "Ice," "Borders," "Animals," and "Oil and Ships." The geographic focus of the...
Other personality characteristics may promote healthy and proenvironmental behaviour. For example, conscientiousness is associated with health behaviours such as safer driving habits, better diet, and exercise (Booth-Kewley & Vickers, 1994). More conscientious, open, and future-thinking people report more proenvironmental attitudes and behaviour (Ebreo & Vining, 2001; Lindsay & Strathman, 1997; Nisbet, Zelenski, & Murphy, in press), and individual differences in connectedness to the environment predict ecological attitudes and behaviour (Mayer & Frantz, 2004; [Elizabeth K. L. Nisbet] et al., in press; see Armitage & Conner, 2000; Rosen, 2000, for health behaviour reviews; see Bamberg & Moser, 2007, for a review of environmental behaviour). The Theory of Plann...
...In the Canadian Arctic, for example, Aboriginal peoples' cultural and eco... choices become a health hazard when fish, animals, and plants are contaminated (Van Oostdam et al., ...
The largest zoo in Manitoba, the self-proclaimed polar bear capital of the world, has been without a member of the iconic Arctic species since 2008, when 42-year-old zoo resident Debby died. The zoo is unable to acquire another adult polar bear because its existing bear enclosure, built in the 1950s, no longer meets Manitoba Conservation standards. We're not doing this to show people polar bear cubs, as cute as they are. We're doing this to keep cubs alive," said Bob Williams, the Canadian chairman for Polar Bears International, a non-profit educational organization based in Assiniboine Park. The new polar bear centre is the most dramatic aspect of an Assiniboine Park Zoo revitalization plan that will see the zoo function more as an environmental education centre. The zoo plans to rear...
... Park Zoo is preparing to house orphan animals from across the Arctic. The largest zoo in Manitob...
We have sightings every year, but we certainly have no evidence of cubs," said [Bill Watkins], who believes Manitoba's grizzlies are temporary visitors from Nunavut. "It appears they're coming down looking for food. Grizzly bears may never have completely abandoned northern Manitoba, Watkins said. Early explorers and fur traders encountered the bears in northern Manitoba and the animals appear in the oral histories of Manitoba First Nations. Even polar-bear behaviour may be changing. Watkins said the ice-faring bears have been observed eating muskrats and other small land animals in northern Manitoba, but he cautioned against attributing this observation to longer sub-Arctic summers that are reducing the window for polar bears to pursue seals on the ice of Hudson Bay.
At first, people didn't get excited about it. The Arctic was so far away," [Bob Wrigley] said. "But now with global warming, we might not have polar bears in Manitoba anymore," he added, referring to climatologists' predictions Hudson Bay will soon have insufficient ice to sustain polar bears. Ironically, the Assiniboine Park Zoo's King and Wrigley were the architects of the very same Manitoba Conservation rules that prevent the zoo from obtaining another polar bear. Provincial standards for housing polar bears include a lot of room to move around, a soft surface to dig around in and enough enrichment -- that is, changeable aspects of the environment -- to keep animals stimulated. [Carmichael], a five-month-old orphan polar bear, whose mother was shot 50 kilometres south of Churchill, ...
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