Photo: Team polar bear teaches Americans about the iconic mammal

Nunavut MP and Canada’s environment minister, Leona Aglukkaq, front, stands beside Nunavut’s environment minister, Johnny Mike, and other Arctic delegates in front of the National Conservation Training Centre in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, June 12, at the end of a Canada-U.S. polar bear forum in that town June 10 to June 12. Aglukkaq, and other Arctic representatives, travelled to West Virginia last week to fend off any further attempts to up-list the polar bear into a different status under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species which would give it increased protection from harvesting. (PHOTO COURTESY ADAMIE ALAKU)