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Wildlife (Animals and Plants)
Wildlife Management Groups
Legislation
Institutions of Public Government (IPGs) and Inuit Organizations
Government Departments
International Organizations
Traditional Knowledge
Science
Understanding the Environment
Weather
Maps
Government Wildlife Co-management Partners

Land Mammals
www.innsnorth.com/html/inns-cur-landmam.htm A guide to Nunavut's primary four-legged friends.

Rangifer.Net
www.rangifer.net
A global update on caribou and reindeer herds in North America, Russia, and Europe.

Tuktu and Nogak Traditional Ecological Knowledge Project
www.rangifer.net/rangifer/resprojects/7-wkss_2.cfm
Inuit traditional knowledge about caribou and calving grounds in the Bathurst Inlet area.

Marine Mammals
www.innsnorth.com/html/inns-cur-marinemam.htm
Learn about seals, walruses, narwhals, beluga whales, bowhead whales and more.

Birds
www.innsnorth.com/html/inns-cur-birds.htm
A primer on Nunavut's spectacular seabirds and other feathered inhabitants.

Flora
www.innsnorth.com/html/inns-cur-flora.htm
A snapshot of those hardy, colorful arctic plants and flowers that make the most of Nunavut's brief summer.

Program for the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna
www.caff.is
This Arctic Council program addresses the special needs of arctic species and their habitats.

Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board
www.arctic-caribou.com
Biologists, wildlife managers and Inuit, Dene, Métis and Cree hunters work together to conserve the huge barren-ground Beverly and Qamanirjuaq caribou herds, which have their calving grounds in Nunavut.

West Kitikmeot/Slave Study Society
www.wkss.nt.ca
The WKSSS funds research on environment, wildlife, critical habitats, and other issues in western Nunavut and southeastern NWT.

Porcupine Caribou Management Board
http://www.taiga.net/pcmb/
This co-management board manages the 160,000-strong Porcupine herd that ranges between Yukon and Alaska.

Nunavut Land Claims Act
laws.justice.gc.ca/en/N-28.7/

Nunavut Implementation Contract
www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/al/ldc/ccl/fagr/nuna/lca/nlc-eng.pdf

Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act,[1993,c.29]
www.nucj.ca/library/bar_ads_mat/Nunavut_Land_Claims_Agreement.pdf

Nunavut Impact Review Board
http://nirb.ca The NIRB assesses the potential ecological and socio-economic effects of proposed projects and advises whether, and how, they should proceed.

Nunavut Planning Commission
nunavut.ca
Responsible for land use planning within Nunavut, the NPC site includes an environmental database, a digital environmental database list and an experts database.

Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated
www.tunngavik.com
This is Nunavut's main land claim organization, responsible for ensuring that the promises made in the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement are carried out.

Makivik Corporation
www.makivik.org
Represents the Inuit of northern Quebec (Nunavik). Two members from Makivik sit as alternates on the NWMB when the Board discusses issues relating to the Areas of Equal Use and Occupancy, shared between Nunavik and Nunavut.

Department of Sustainable Development, Government of Nunavut
www.gov.nu.ca
A brief description of the mandates of all Nunavut government departments, plus contact information.

Nunavut Research Institute
www.nri.nu.ca
Develops, facilitates and promotes traditional knowledge, science, research and technology as a resource for the well-being of residents of Nunavut.

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)
www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/index.htm
DFO is the agency responsible for fish and marine mammal stocks.

Environment Canada
weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/index.html
Protects and conserves wildlife and habitats, provides weather and ice forecasting and warnings, and much more.

Canadian Wildlife Services
http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/
Handles wildlife matters that are the responsibility of the federal government, such as the protection of migratory birds. It also does research in many fields of wildlife biology.

Parks Canada
http://www.pc.gc.ca/index_e.asp
Responsible for Nunavut's three national parks, Auyuittuq, Qutiniqpaaqand Sirmilik national parks.

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) - Nunavut Regional Office
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ai/scr/nu/index.asp
A description of services offered by the regional office, as well as background documents on the events leading to the creation of Nunavut and co-managment boards such as the NWMB.

Canadian Coast Guard
www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/
The Canadian Coast Guard also works in marine communications, search and rescue measures, and safe boating programs.

Nunavut.com
www.nunavut.com
All kinds of contacts for Nunavut's new government, Inuit and land claim organizations, and more. Plus, basic facts on the new territory.

The North Atlantic Marine Mammal Organization
www.nammco.no/ An inter-governmental body for co-operation on the conservation, management and study of marine mammals in the North Atlantic.

High North Alliance
http://www.highnorth.no
This Norway-based group works to protect the rights of whalers, sealers and fishermen to harvest renewable resources in accordance with the principle of sustainable management.

Report of the Nunavut Traditional Knowledge Conference
www.tunngavik.com Sponsored by the Nunavut Social Development Council, this 1998 conference looked at issues related to the use, promotion, collection, and transmission of Inuit traditional knowledge in Nunavut.

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami - Traditional Ecological Knowledge
http://www.itk.ca/

Arctic Science and Technology Information System
www.aina.ucalgary.ca/astis/ More than 46,000 records of research projects and publications devoted to northern Canada.

Subsistence hunting in a global economy
arcticcircle.uconn.edu/
A look at how northern wildlife co-management groups help communities to shape their local economies.

Arctic Weather Centre
http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/canada/index_e.html?id=NU Forecasts for all Nunavut communities in Inuktitut as well as English and French.

Marine Forecasts for Northern Canada
weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/marine/index_e.html
Good for fishers and boaters, the site includes weather conditions for Hudson Strait and Foxe Basin, Baffin Bay, Northern Hudson Bay, and Eastern Baffin Island including Davis Strait.

National Atlas of Canada
atlas.gc.ca/site/index.html Provides a downloadable, printable file of a map of Nunavut

Nunavut '99
www.nunavut.com/nunavut99/english/map.html
Indicates all communities in Nunavut, as well as the territory's three regions. Available in separate English and Inuktitut versions.

Tide Tables
http://www.lau.chs-shc.gc.ca/english/Canada.shtml
View a map of the Arctic, zero in to a community or other geographic reference point, and get predictions of tide levels for the next 48 hours

Migration routes of bowhead whales

These maps, from the NWMB's Inuit Bowhead Knowledge Study, reveal informants' knowledge of the distribution and migration routes of bowhead whales during each of the Inuktitut seasons.

Map 1:  Distribution and migration routes of bowheads during UKIUQ (winter).
Map 2:  Distribution and migration routes of bowheads during UPIRNGASSAQ (early spring).
Map 3:  Distribution and migration routes of bowheads during UPIRNGAAQ (spring).
Map 4:  Distribution and migration routes of bowheads during AUJAQ (summer).
Map 5:  Distribution and migration routes of bowheads during UKIASSAAQ (early fall).
Map 6:  Distribution and migration routes of bowheads during UKIAQ (fall).

Range of Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Herds: various maps
http://www.arctic-caribou.com/aboutcaribou.html
More than 75 maps from the CD-ROM version of the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board's mapping project, Protecting Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou and Caribou Range.

Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/index-eng.asp

Government of Nunavut: Department of Sustainable Development
http://www.gov.nu.ca/env//DSD/

Fisheries and Oceans Canada: Central and Arctic Region
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/regions/central/index_e.htm

Canadian Wildlife Service
http://www.mb.ec.gc.ca/nature/ecb/index.en.html

Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated
http://www.tunngavik.com/

Kivalliq Wildlife Board
http://www.nwmb.com/english/contact_us/rwo_kivalliq.php

Qikiqtaluk Wildlife Board
http://www.nwmb.com/english/contact_us/rwo_baffin.php

Kitikmeot Hunters and Trappers Association
http://www.nwmb.com/english/contact_us/rwo_kitikmeot.php

Hunters and Trappers Associations
(Baffin, Kitikmeot, Kivalliq)

Parks Canada (Department of Canadian Heritage)
http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/index.aspx

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