Inuvialuit: Inuvik and Square Kilometres

inuvialuit: The grizzly bears are moving into new areas, said Vernon Amos, chairman of the Inuvialuit game council, in an interview from Inuvik, N.W.T. At about 3,400 residents, Inuvik is the most populous community within the Inuvialuit Settlement Region that stretches across about 100,000 square kilometres of land, according to National Observer. What people are readingUN climate negotiations end in 'demoralizing, enraging' failureCOP25 derailed as polluters prioritized over people and planet Now who will lead Canada's Conservatives Grizzlies have long roamed the four mainland Inuvialuit communities, including Inuvik, but there are more of them and they're appearing for the first time around the two more northerly communities of Sachs Harbour and Ulukhaktok, he said. Inuvialuit hunters and trappers say grizzly bears are showing up in increasing numbers on islands of the Beaufort Sea and experts say climate change is likely a driving factor. Amos, 42, grew up in Sachs Harbour and says the ecosystem has changed significantly over his lifetime. There is a much longer melting and growing season. While the seasonal freeze used to begin in August, this year it occurred toward the end of September or early October an increasingly common occurrence, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.