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Join the Community-Based Monitoring Network! There is still a week to apply as a new community to the CBMN. If you are interested, please talk to your HTO to apply by August 30th!

NWMB staff joined in the Iqaluit community clean-up! Cleaning up litter around your community can help reduce the amount of microplastics and pollutants that enter the wider ecosystem and animal food chains. #litter #microplastics #pollution #cleanup #community #nunavut #Iqaluit

Happy Indigenous People's Day and Summer Solstice!

It's Tuesday... you know what that means! Trivia Tuesday! How can you determine the age of a walrus?

The 2023 Nunavut Wildlife Research Trust Annual Report is here! Read about wildlife research happening all across Nunavut on our website and here: buff.ly/3y0twiV #NWRT #research #projects #funding #arctic #Nunavut

Check out Andy's new ride that he won through our Community-Based Monitoring Network! 🏆 #CBMN #harvest #harvester #CBM #winner #ATV

The Nunavut Wildlife Research Trust is supporting research to understand why shorebirds are declining in Nunavut. Watch Environment and Climate Change Canada staff and Inuit Field Training Program trainees carefully measure eggs to study nest success. 📹 Paul Smith

Meet Hector, a Sabine’s gull who lives, for at least part of the year, in East Bay Migratory Bird Sanctuary on Southampton Island. Hector is 24 years old, which makes him one of the oldest known Sabine’s gull! 📸 Brendan Kelly

#DYK that the scientific name for walrus, Odobenus rosmarus, means “tooth-walking horse of the sea”? #Nunavut #wildlife #walrus #funfact

Wildlife photographer Paul Souders captured this stunning photo of a female nanuq lurking just below the surface of the water in Hudson Bay. Nanuq are powerful swimmers and have been known to swim further than 90 kilometers without rest. Source: buff.ly/46TiQyj

A reminder to our Government partners that Nunavut Wildlife Research Trust applications are due in a few days, on January 15. Submit your application here: buff.ly/3QzPAq0 📸Cynthia Pialaq and Kori-Don Issigaitok working on Paul Smith's NWRT-funded shorebird study

The time it takes for a caribou population to come back after a cyclic decline is the same as the time it takes for moss to grow over their bones. #Nunavut #wildlife #caribou #funfact #DYK #IQ #inuitqaujimajatuqangit 📸 Shutterstock

There was a lot of cool research going on around Nunavut this year. In 2023, NWMB funded: 18 Nunavut Wildlife Research Trust projects; 1 Nunavut Wildlife Studies Fund projects; and 1 Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Research Fund project Can’t wait to see what research 2024 will bring!

CBMN participants had another record-breaking year. In 2023, harvesters went on 4,150+ trips, travelled 489,750+ km, harvested 1,100+ animals, and made 2,060+ observations! WOW! Thanks for the great year everyone 😄 #communitybasedresearch #wrapup #harvest #nunavut #wildlife

Happy Winter Solstice. The days are only getting longer from here! ☀️

A new, genetically distinct species of ringed seal - the Kangia seal - found in Western Greenland has been described. Kangia seals are larger and more aggressive than the regular Arctic ringed seal, and have a different fur pattern. Read more here: Rosing-Avid, A. et al., 2023

NWMB dropped off some early presents this year. Stephen and Albert of Naujaat got their CBMN grand prize wins just in time for the winter holiday season. ❄️ Looking pretty good, guys! Enjoy! #CBMN #Nunavut #grandprize #winner #skidoo #machine #snow #harvester

Stories tell us of amazing amounts of char that ran up the Coppermine River & gathered at the base of Kugluk Falls, in what is now Kugluk Territorial Park, before migrating further upstream for winter. The traditional campsite Onoagahiovik means the place where you stay all night

Our last Regular Meeting of the year is happening in one week on Wednesday, November 29 in Iqaluit! Check out the agenda below. Requests to attend the meeting should be made to reception@nwmb.com.

The spookiest thing haunting the ocean is ghost gear! 👻 Ghost gear is any fishing gear that has been lost, abandoned, or otherwise discarded. The gear continues to catch or entangle fish and other marine life. About 800,000 tonnes of ghost gear enter the oceans every year!