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Nunavut MLA links online meat sales with overhunting of Kivalliq caribou
“We have seen many caribou carcasses that are just left there”

Rankin Inlet North–Chesterfield Inlet MLA Cathy Towtongie questioned Joe Savikataaq, Nunavut’s premier and environment minister, in the legislature on Feb. 27 about the overhunting of caribou in the Kivalliq. (File photo)
Nunavut MLA links online meat sales with overhunting of Kivalliq caribou
Nunavut’s MLA for Rankin Inlet North–Chesterfield Inlet is again raising concerns about the overhunting of caribou in the Kivalliq.
“I am passionate about protecting the caribou of the Kivalliq,” Cathy Towtongie told the legislature on Thursday, Feb. 27.
She directly linked the overhunting of caribou in the region with online sales of meat, citing a report from 2018 tabled last June in the Nunavut legislature on wildlife management programs in the territory that indicated that “some of the greatest threats to the long-term viability of Kivalliq…
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