Closing Statements

Makivvik & Anguvigaq Final Closing Statement_PB public hearing.pdf

2025_05_08 ECCC PB Hearing Closing Statement_Final.pdf

2025 NQL Hearing GN Response.pdf

2025 NQL Hearing GN Response_Inuktitut.pdf

CNGCTAClosingStatement_PBPublicHearingPhase02_February2025_Final.pdf

Undertakings, responses and references

UNDERTAKINGS Feb 4-7, 2025.pdf

Quebec-Gov_Phase-2-PB-Hearing-Questions-and-Answers-2024-03-18.pdf

ECCC Response to Undertakings NQL Phase 2 (March 14 2025final).pdf

References:

Review and Analysis of Canadian Trade in Polar Bears from 2005–2014.pdf

Review and Analysis of Canadian Trade in Polar Bears from 2012–2021.pdf

1973_Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears.pdf

Lunn and Stirling 1985.pdf

Clarkson and Stirling 1994.pdf

Smith et al. 2022.pdf

Stimmelmayr et al. 2023.pdf

Towns et al 2009.pdf

Wilder et al. 2017 Polar Bear Attacks on Humans_Implications of a Changing Climate.pdf

Dyck et al. 2006.pdf

Additional questions to parties

Polar bear hearing – Phase 2: Questions and Answers sheet

Appendix: Final decision of Minister Savikataaq for the Government of Nunavut and Minister McKenna for the Government of Canada

Presentations from the Hearing

Phase 2_ PolarBearNQLs-PublicHearing.pdf

Inuktitut-Phase 2_ PolarBearNQLs-PublicHearing.pdf

Northrup polar bear scientific information_amended.pdf

EVR SH polar bear harvest risk 04Feb25_UPDATED.pdf

PB_hearingpresentation_JamesBayProject_ALangwieder2025.pdf

ECCC Science Presentation Phase II NQl Hearings February 2025.pdf

ECCC Management Deck Phase 2 NQL Hearing.pdf

ECCC-Management-Deck-Phase-2-NQL-Hearing_-IN.pdf

MELCCFP_NQL Hearing_Qc_2025-02-04.pdf

Phase 2-Public Hearing Polar Bears-Cree-Inuit Ovelap Area-CTA 5feb2025.pdf

CNGPresentation_PolarBearPublicHearingPhase02_February2025.pdf

NMRWB SHB IK Study Presentation.pdf

EMRWB Polar Bear TEK_Eng_Inuktitut.pdf

Summary-of-Makivvik-and-Anguvigaq-presentation.pdf

Hearing Documents from the NMRWB and EMRWB

NMRWB-Nunavik-Inuit-knowledge-and-Observations.pdf

EMRWB_Polar-Bear-Cree-Traditional-Knowledge_FINAL_20210813.pdf

1-SHB-Polar-Bear-TAT-final-decision.pdf

3-2023-community-led-non-invasive-polar-bear-monitoring-in-the-eeyou-marine-region-of-james-bay-canada-insights-on.pdf

2024_Nature Communications_PolarBearEnergeticAndBehaviour_WHs41467-023-44682-1.pdf

Dyck et al. – 2007 – Polar bears of western Hudson Bay and climate change Are warming spring air temperatures the “ultimate” surviva.pdf

IUCN-RedListAssessmentPolarbear_Wiig_etal_2015.pdf

IUCN-Supplementary_Information_14871490.pdf

O_Neill et al. 2008. Exerpt knowledge to assess uncertainty in polar bear pop J Appl Ecology.pdf

Rode et al. – 2014 – Variation in the response of an Arctic top predator experiencing habitat loss feeding and reproductive ecology

Rode et al. – 2015 – Can polar bears use terrestrial foods to offset lost ice-based hunting opportunities.pdf

Russell_habits of polar bear_JameBay_SouthwestHudsonBay.pdf

Stirling_et_al-2012-Global_Change_Biology.pdf

WMAC Polar Bear Press Release-min.pdf

Clarke and Slocombe – 2009 – Respect for Grizzly Bears_ An Aboriginal Approach for Co-existenc.pdf

Dowsley – 2009 – Community clusters in wildlife mgmnt.pdf

Freeman, Wenzel – 2006 – The Nature and Significance of Polar Bear Conservation Hunting in the Canadian Arctic.pdf

isr_polar_bear_joint_management_plan_2017_final.pdf

Lemelin et al. – 2010 – Wabusk of the Omushkegouk Cree-Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Interactions in Northern Ontario.pdf

Miller_royalroads_1313O_10956.pdf

Slavik – Unknown – Inuvialuit Knowledge of Nanuq Community and Traditional Knowledge of Polar Bears in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.pdf

Tyrrell – 2006 – More bears, less bears Inuit and scientific perceptions of polar bear populations on the west coast of Hudson Bay.pdf

Wenzel_Polar Bears as a resource.pdf

Hearing Documents from MELCCCFP

Quebec_EMR_NMR Polar Bear Management Plan_EN_FINAL WEB.pdf

Quebec_EMR_NMR Polar Bear Management Plan_IK_Nunavik dialect_WEB.pdf

Plan gestion ours blanc_FR-Web.pdf

Hearing Documents from OMNRF

SH report 2021_English and Inuktitut.pdf

SH report 2021_Français.pdf

EMR Polar Bear Report_2023-2024-1.pdf

Obbard et al. 2006

Obbard2008USGSPolarBearSHudsonBay

Viengkone et al. 2016

Hearing Document from Government of Nunavut

SH TWG Subpopulation Status Report_FINAL_March 05 2024.pdf

GN Response NMRWB and EMRWB NQL Responses.pdf

GN Response NMRWB and EMRWB NQL Responses-iu.pdf

Hearing Documents from the Inukjuak Anguvigaq

Video Submissions

Hearing Documents from the Cree Trappers’ Association

1. CTA Submission (English)

2. CTA Submission (Inuktitut)

CTA – Traditional Eeyou Hunting Law 2009.pdf

Hearing Documents from the Cree Nation Document

CNGPresentation_PolarBearPublicHearingPhase02_February2025.pdf

Hearing Documents from ECCC

1. Polar bear Non-Detriment Finding Report.pdf

2. Laforest et al 2018.pdf

4. ECCC Report_PB Distribution Shift in HB_ENG.pdf

4. ECCC_Harvest summary_ENG.pdf

4. ECCC_Harvest summary_Inuktitut.pdf

7. SH_HarvestAnalysis_Final_2019_EN.pdf

7. SH_HarvestAnalysis_Summary_2019_FR.pdf

7. SH_HarvestAnalysis_Summary_2019_Inuktitut.pdf

8. SH TWG Subpopulation Status Report.pdf

8. SH TWG Subpopulation Status Report_ExecutiveSummary_FR.pdf

8. SH TWG Subpopulation Status Report_ExecutiveSummary_NU.pdf

9. Options document for SH TWG_EN.pdf

9. Options document for SH TWG_Inuktitut.pdf

11. Middel and Obbard 2024.pdf

12. Obbard and Middel 2012.pdf

13. Obbard et al. 2007.pdf

14. Obbard et al. 2015.pdf

15. Obbard et al. 2016.pdf

16. Obbard et al. 2018.pdf

17. Regehr et al. 2021.pdf

18. Stroeve et al. 2024.pdf

19. Viengkone et al. 2018.pdf

20. ECCC Written Questions Phase 2.pdf

20. ECCC-Written-Questions-Phase-2_-IN.pdf

007-250121-020_TG_SH-Science-documents-Abstracts-1-EN_Nunavik.pdf

NQLs_in_place_in_Greenland_Norway_Russia_United_States_March_8_2024

Review and Analysis of Canadian Trade in Polar Bears from 2012–2021.pdf

Polar bear deterrence programs.pdf

Southern Hudson Bay TAT and NQL Decision Documents

Response from Government of Nunavut

Response from Environment Canada

NMRWB & EMRWB Final Decision 2015

Response from Government of Nunavut (English)

Response from Government of Nunavut (Inuktitut)

Response from Environment Canada