Polar bear harvested near Iqaluit
Kevin Akpalialuk poses beside the polar bear he harvested past the causeway on the sea ice near Iqaluit on Friday. The bear’s meat was shared with the community Friday afternoon. It was Akpalialuk’s first polar bear. (Photo courtesy of Norman Mike)
Congratulations! First Bear, lifetime memory and no doubt a good story to tell.
What a waste of a beautiful animal
Not a waste. Every part of this animal will be used, for clothing, food, tools, etc. Hunting is and has been for hundreds of years an essential part of Inuit livelihood and culture, with respect for the land and the animals, and for the sustainability of the same.
Best meat in the whole world!
This was definitely not a waste as it is badly need in that area for food and clothing. These people know how to hunt not for waste as is done in other parts of Canada where poaching is rampant and waste is another story. Great hunting their brother.
Polar Bear meat is Awesome.?
Human is the cancer of this world. Killing animals just for fun. Before it was acceptable because it was matter of survival, but now everything is in the market. Killing animals is not art, it’s not culture. It’s cruel.
Have you ever had to live in the north. A 10kg bag of flour is $40+. Potatoes are $20. A small package of strawberries are $11. If not more depending on where you live. Hunting is a way for people to eat without struggling to pay for basic items, rent, water, heating. So it is necessary. May people in my community hunt as they livelihood, they didn’t get a degree, they don’t have a westernized job. Their job is to hunt and provide for their family/community. They have done it for hundreds of years and only take what they need. Unlike commercial farming that just destroys land and uses inhumane practices on animals.
Iqalummiutaujunga. I know what’s the life up north. Don’t try to sell fake ideas, you’re saying like if we were in the 20s. I bet you order every week from Amazon. Do you know the impact in our environment that provokes killing animals for fun? No, because you celebrate those horrendous practices.
You’re kidding, right? Shipping these through amazon is way worse for the environment than bear hunting.
Save your ignorant comments!!! You don’t know what your talking about! The inuit waste nothing from the animal !
If Inuit don’t waste is it Qalunaaq that are wasting seal pelts and letting them rot near the ocean? Is it the Qalunaaq who leave dog teams tied without any access to water for months on end? Is it Qalunaaq who don’t neuter their dogs causing hundreds if not thousands of dogs to be killed every year?
I wonder why we never see “farmer kills 50,000 chickens” or Mc Donalds “places order for the butchering of 20,000 cows”… we may have access to farm raised food but man! The prices are un-real! This is our land, our animals no different than our farm except our animals are all free grazing and organic!
This comment is so ignorant. Clearly coming from someone who has never even looked into the cost of living in the north & how limited it is to import basic necessities, especially during this time of year.
Should have put out more info on the hunt.
This could have been a bigger story. Looks lazy and did not put effort into this “caption”.
> The holder of a harvesting licence may only hunt a polar bear by dog team or on
foot.
Inuit do not need a license or beneficiary card to harvest wildlife. Only non-Inuit hunters need to use traditional methods with the help of a guide to hunt polar bear. This guy is pretty clearly Inuk.
Ahh more of those rules for thee but not for me. Go figure. :Rolls eyes:
More of that Systemic Racism our MP is telling us about. 🙂
That is the law for inuit in greenland not in canada…
It might apply to the very limited number of sportsman tags that are sold to foreigners but I’m not entirely sure.
I fully support the use of
Our resources in a manor that is not wasteful. Congratulations on your first polar bear and I’m sure it was enjoyed by all that it was shared with !!