Many have never met narwhal hunters, who, “even by Greenland standards, are extreme,” McLain said. Yet the figure of the Qaanaaq hunter looms large in the country’s cultural imagination, the ...

In Greenland waters the numbers have fallen from 1,945 in 2008 to only 246 two years ago and may have dropped again since. While native Inuit of northern Canada are allowed to hunt narwhals, it is ...

Washington, DC—Naalakkersuisut (Greenland’s government) must immediately cancel narwhal hunting quotas for Southeast Greenland or risk losing three populations of these whales forever, according to a ...

Inuit Hunters Help Scientists Track Narwhals On a remote fjord in northwest Greenland, traditional Inuit hunting techniques are being used to stick tiny, high-tech satellite tracking devices onto ...

People in Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory, are authorized to hunt narwhals "but there are rules that say you can't shoot females and that you have to remove the body" after killing the ...

The discovery of over 30 dead narwhals at a hunting site in Greenland causes hefty debate. Fears for Greenland’s reputation. Danmark. 27. august 2008, 10.52. Dagens avis 8. november 2024. ... Dead ...

Inuit hunters led researchers up a fjord in Greenland in pursuit of mysterious and shy narwhals. The geophysicists were hunting the sounds of the unique marine mammals called the “unicorns of ...

In 2004, Greenland set narwhal-hunting quotas for the first time, despite some hunters' protests, and banned the export of the tusks, halting a thousand-year-old trade.

Narwhals are at risk of extinction with their numbers shrinking drastically because of excessive hunting in Greenland, a scientist has warned. Known as the 'unicorns of the sea' and best known for ...

On a remote fjord in northwest Greenland, traditional Inuit hunting techniques are being used to stick tiny, high-tech satellite tracking devices onto narwhals — a kind of Arctic whale famous ...

People in Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory, are authorized to hunt narwhals "but there are rules that say you can't shoot females and that you have to remove the body" after killing the ...

30+ Conservation Organizations Urge Greenland to Cancel Narwhal Hunting Quotas WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, January 28, 2022 /EINPresswire.com / -- Naalakkersuisut (Greenland's government) must ...