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Projects focus on food sovereignty, youth The “Imaa, Like This” team took home the $1 million prize for their project. February 25, 2021 For the first time, the Arctic Inspiration Prize has awarded more than $3 million to seven projects across Canada’s North — going “above and beyond” in a 2020 filled with challenges. “In a year that has brought many challenges, sacrifices and uncertainties, the AIP has really gone above and beyond to make dreams come true and support these incredible efforts by the North, and for the North projects,” says Hannah Uniuqsaraq, chair of the AIP C...

Share: TALOYOAK, NU, Feb. 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On the coast of Aviqtuuq, the Nunavut hamlet of Taloyoak is home to 1,100 residents and one $500,000 Arctic Inspiration Prize for their food sovereignty project. WWF-Canada is proud to have helped support the community in developing this prize-winning proposal as well as other ongoing environmental initiatives. Niqihaqut , which means "our food" in Inuktitut, was the winning submission from Taloyoak's Spence Bay Hunter & Trapper Association (the community was formerly called Spence Bay) and seeks to create a country-food economy in the ...

Table of Contents Arctic Oasis Sustains Northernmost Inuit Communities—and Marine Mammals The sun hugs the horizon over northern Baffin Bay beyond the village of Grise Fiord in Nunavut, Canada. Along the shoreline just beyond these buildings, a massive pileup of ice forms one border of the North Water Polynya, a richly biodiverse area of open water. Leah Brown Fisheries and Oceans Canada Between Canada and Greenland lies the most biologically productive ecosystem north of the Arctic Circle: an 85,000-square-kilometer (32,800-square-mile) region of ocean known in Gree...

Recently, the BC government announced the acquisition of more than 650 hectares of land intended to be added to 16 provincial parks and two protected areas. Buried on Page 7 of the BC Parks Land Acquisition Program Report PDF is an 18-hectare parcel of land on north end of Kootenay Lake across from Kaslo that will be added to the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Protect Area.

(Photo : Wikimedia Commons ) Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park, Taranna, Tasmania, Australia.Tasmanian Devils disappeared from mainland Australia as recently as 400 years ago, but have now made their comeback in New South Wales. Lemurs are among the most endangered species of animals, having 98% lemur species threatened and 31% critically endangered. This year, however, scientists described a new lemur species, the tiny  Microcebus jonahi or Jonah's mouse lemur, which was named after respected primatologist Jonah Ratsimbazafy. Describing new lemur ...