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Caribou on Southampton Island


Facts:


 * 1) Nunavut Government announced a new quota for Southampton Island caribou harvested in Coral Harbour.
 * 2) The harvest will be limited to 1,000 animals per year.
 * 3) James Arreak, Nunavut Environment Minister, in a written statement, said this was the only way to safeguard the caribou for future generations.
 * 4) “We regret having to take such drastic measures as to limit the harvest, however this is the only way that we can quickly and adequately address the problem,” he said.
 * 5) In the same release, Coral Harbour Hunters and Trappers Chair Noah Kadlak agreed.
 * 6) He said fewer and fewer caribou have been seen in the past few years.
 * 7) “The (Hunters and Trappers Organization) board would like to see something done about this before it is too late, and there are no caribou left on the island.”
 * 8) Nunavut Government studies show the herd declined from 30,000 in 1997 to 7,800 in 2011.
 * 9) Under the territory’s Wildlife Act, the minister can make immediate conservation decisions in unusual or emergency circumstances.
 * 10) The Environment Department did an aerial survey of the herd in June. The updated population estimates should be released later this month.
 * 11) The government plans to present them to the Hunters and Trappers Organization and use the numbers to make longer-term management decisions.
 * 12) This interim measure goes into effect immediately.

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Facts:


 * 1) The caribou herd on Southampton Island was wiped out in the 1950s.
 * 2) It may face extinction once again.
 * 3) Mitch Campbell works as a wildlife biologist with the Government of Nunavut.
 * 4) He says disease and overhunting are threatening the herd on the island.
 * 5) Southampton Island is located at the mouth of Hudson Bay.
 * 6) He said a reproductive disease called brucellosis infected the island herd in 2000.
 * 7) The disease has caused pregnancy rates to drop to 30 per cent from 80 per cent.
 * 8) Other communities, such as Iqaluit, are ordering meat from the Coral Harbour hunters.
 * 9) Social media like Facebook and cheap shipping rates from the airlines for country food contribute to overhunting of the herd.
 * 10) The herd on Southampton Island was hunted to extinction in the 1950s
 * 11) In 1968, fifty animals were transplanted on the island.
 * 12) "They've gone down from a high of 30,000 in 1997 to what we surveyed this last June which was about 7,500 animals," said Campbell.
 * 13) Campbell said more than 1,500 caribou had been exported this winter, which is higher than the birth rate, and that is only halfway through the season.
 * 14) "We believe that if this isn't stopped, this is an unsustainable harvest and probably will cause the population to be devastated within the next three years or so," he said.
 * 15) "One of the only ways that we will be able to control the harvest is by applying a total allowable harvest."
 * 16) Campbell said efforts to meet with the Coral Harbour Hunters and Trappers Organization have been unsuccessful.
 * 17) No one from the organization was available to speak with CBC.



To examine the relationships between body condition, pregnancy, and population dynamics in predator-free caribou

Facts


 * 1) Scientific name = Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus
 * 2) 147 females of the rapidly increasing Southampton Island herd were collected during the spring (n = 100) and autumn (n = 47) from 1988 through 1991 to assess their reproductive status and body condition (i.e., fat and muscle reserves).
 * 3) Caribou had been hunted to extinction on Southampton Island by 1953. Forty-eight animals were transferred from Coats Island to Southampton Island in 1967.
 * 4) During this study, caribou population density on Southampton Island was low and range quality high in both summer and winter.
 * 5) Results were compared with previously published data from the winter food limited Coats Island herd.
 * 6) On Southampton Island, 1-year-old or older caribou showed no annual or seasonal variation in body condition,
 * 7) The pregnancy rate was exceptionally high (97%; n = 93).
 * 8) All 21 yearling females and 69 of 72 older females were pregnant.
 * 9) Southampton Island caribou were lighter and had less fat in autumn than Coats Island caribou, but Southampton Island caribou were both heavier and fatter in spring.
 * 10) Herds both on Southampton and Coats Island are predator free.

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The Sadlermiut and the Tuniit
The article mentions that the extinct Sadlermiut were the last vestiges of the Tuniit, who were a pre-Eskimo culture. This is incorrect. The Tuniit have in most cases been identified with the "pre-Eskimo" Dorset culture (actually a pre-Thule culture, the Thule culture being the ancestors of the historical Central and Eastern Eskimos/Inuit), but the Sadlermiut were not Dorset. This idea stems from the fact that Sadlermiut stone tools were made by chipping (typical of Dorset) rather than grinding (typical of Thule). However, Sadlermiut material culture otherwise was typical Late Thule; even the chipped stone blades were made in shapes typically used in Thule ground slate blades and were inset in typical Late Thule harpoon heads etc.. The chipping (which was also known in Birnirk, the Alaskan parent culture of Thule), as well as certain details such as the bifurcate spur of certain Late Thule harpoon heads, may have been adopted from the Dorset culture through contact, but judging from the bulk of Sadlermiut material culture (as well as their language), they were certainly descendents of Thule, not Dorset, and were thus related to the rest of the historical Hudson Bay Eskimo groups.--Death Bredon (talk) 16:05, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

Time zone of Southampton Island: all EST, or partly CST?
Please see the discussion I have started at Talk:Time in Nunavut. It is relevant to this article but for convenience please reply at the other talk page to keep discussion in one place. Mathew5000 (talk) 01:41, 26 August 2019 (UTC)