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1 Polar Bear Management in Greenland Ministry of Fisheries, Hunting and Agriculture Meeting of the Parties of the Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears Ilulissat, Greenland, 1-3 September 2015 Heidi Mary Hansen, Biologist/Head of Section & Kristin Laidre, Research Scientist, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
2 Content Polar Bear Management System in Greenland Overview of the Greenlandic polar bear sub-populations Catch reporting and control Quotas and harvest CITES Management Conflict bears and future work with PBHIMS Important next steps Research and Monitoring activities - By Kristin Laidre, PhD
3 Polar Bear Management in Greenland Geographical coverage of the executive order The executive order covers the land and the economic zones of Greenland Special provisions apply for access to the National Park in North and East Greenland (red), and the Melville Bay Nature Reserve (blue).
4 Polar Bear Management in Greenland Greenland Home Rule Executive Order no. 21 of 22 September 2005 on the Protection and Hunting of Polar Bears Initiated the use of the Government of Greenland s annual polar bear quota system and monitoring, taking into account: International agreements, Biological advice provided by Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR), Harvest statistics, and TEK, through consultations with the Hunting Council and KNAPK, (and other relevant partners)
5 Polar Bear Management in Greenland Protective elements in the executive order: Quota-system dictates permitted harvest level and permitted hunting period Only occupational (full time) hunters can hunt polar bears Cubs, and females accompanied by cubs, are totally protected It is prohibited to disturb denning polar bears and deliver polar bear cubs to a zoo Restrictions on hunting methods: No use of aircraft, helicopters, snow scooters No use of poison, spring guns, traps Minimum calibre of (7.62x63 mm)
6 Overview of Greenland s polar bear populations Greenlands 5 sub-populations: The 5 polar bear sub-populations 1. East Greenland 2. Davis Strait East Greenland 3. Baffin Bay Davis Strait 4. Kane Basin Baffin Bay Kane Basin 5. Arctic Basin (no quota or harvest) Arctic Basin (no quotas or catches) AB DS
7 Current distribution of the polar bear quota in Greenland Quota distribution on sub-population level Currently we have a yearly polar bear quota of 140 bears No quota in the Arctic Basin The Baffin Bay & Davis Strait subpopulations have a total quota of 70 Kane Basin has a quota of 6 East Greenland has a quota of 64 (South East Greenland for the rest)
8 Catch reporting and control Only local trade of polar bear parts and products is legal: 1 license = polar bear It is not allowed to sell polar bear meat to processing plants From harvest to pants The local authority forwards standard forms to the Ministry of Fisheries, Hunting and Agriculture
9 Harvest rates and quota After the introduction of quotas in 2006, the harvest rates have stabilized Current quotas cover the period of A new quota-block will be set in Fall 2015 for the period of New data expected fall 2015 from Baffin Bay & Kane Basin assessments Polar Bear harvest numbers Catch Quota
10 CITES Management In 1985 Greenland CITES Management Authority (M. A.) obtained authority to issue CITES permits The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources is the CITES Scientific Authority in Greenland In April 2008, the CITES M. A. introduced a voluntary temporary ban on export of Polar bear products after negative nondetrimental finding (NDF)
11 Polar Bear- Human Conflicts Guidelines on handling of problem bears for Municipalities, Police and Wildlife-Officers exist Public guidelines for handling bear encounters have recently been updated (spring 2015) In cooperation with scientists, Greenland has started tissue sampling from all harvested polar bears including polar bears killed in self-defense
12 Polar Bear- Human Conflicts Number of polar bears killed in self-defense in Greenland: *: Baffin Bay: 5 & East Greenland: East Greenland: Baffin Bay: 1 & East Greenland: East Greenland: 2 Many interactions Few defense kills, and very rarely human injury & death *Preliminary data for 2015
13 Polar Bear- Human Conflicts What are we doing? Initialized the planning process of testing the efficiency of bear spray and rubber bullets as physical deterrent measures The Danish enforcement authority in Greenland will be performing the tests at remote military bases in North East Greenland (the Northeast Greenland National Park) Information campaigns to promote and educate people about the importance of reporting human-bear interactions to our department
14 Important next steps for Greenland Finalization of our National Action Plan Need for updated or new population estimates, especially in East Greenland, to ensure continued sustainable quotas
15 Photos by Carsten Egevang Qujanaq!
16 Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut Polar bear research in Greenland Kristin Laidre, Erik W. Born, Fernando Ugarte Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk
17 Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut Background Population and habitat ecology West Greenland East Greenland TEK Health and condition Harvest monitoring
18 Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut Kane Basin Baffin Bay Shared with Canada Davis Strait BB East Greenland Arctic Basin Important in the future
19 EW Born Use of polar bears in Greenland Hide used for traditional clothing Consumption of meat Hides and small artificats are sold within the country
20 Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut Background Population and habitat ecology West Greenland East Greenland TEK Health and condition Harvest monitoring
21 Kane Basin and Baffin Bay Polar Bears Current estimates are out of date, come from a MR study (Taylor et al. 2005, 2008) BB 2010: The Canada-Greenland Joint Commission on BB-KB requested updated advice from its Scientific Working Group
22 Requested advice on: (1) Total Allowable Harvest from BB and KB (2) Effects of sea ice habitat loss on polar bears BB
23 Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut : Multi-year genetic mark-recapture study in Baffin Bay and Kane Basin Cooperative project: Government of Greenland, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Danish Government (Danish Ministry of the Environment), Government of Nunavut, Environment Canada, Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, Greenlandic and Canadian hunters and hunter organizations.
24 Objectives Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut Estimate the abundance BB and KB bears, examine relative to estimates from the 1990s to determine population trend. Estimate BB/KB survival and reproductive parameters. Re-assess delineation of sub-population boundaries. Evaluate polar bear distribution and habitat use with respect to environmental variables, particularly ice conditions, using satellite telemetry.
25 Activities Biopsy darting in spring and fall in West Greenland, Baffin Island, and Kane Basin Recoveries collected from subsistence harvest in Canada and Greenland Also use archived samples from previous 1990s MR study
26 Three years ( ) Two teams on Baffin Island in fall ( ) On team in KB in spring ( ) Lancaster Sound Melville Bay Greenland One team in NW Greenland in fall ( ) Minimized repeat sampling Foxe Basin You are here. Davis Strait
27 Photo Stephen Atkinson Baffin Island
28 Photo Kristin Laidre West Greenland
29 Sample sizes obtained for genetic MR study
30 2014 KB aerial survey: sight-resight distance sampling
31 Behavior and habitat ecology Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut The Joint Commission requested information on changes in habitat selection and impacts of sea ice loss (n=139 bears captured) 38 satellite collars in Baffin Bay (deployed in West Greenland) 20 satellite collars in Kane Basin (deployed Canada-Greenland)
32 BB tagging sites N=139
33 Comparison of adult movement patterns during the breeding season ( ), Laidre et al. (2012) Proc Royal Soc. B 2015 ongoing: Analyses of resource selection in BB and KB relative to 1990s data (n=55 collars) Stock identity Changes in distribution Sea ice resource selection On-land resource selection
34 Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut Background Population and habitat ecology West Greenland East Greenland TEK Health and condition Harvest monitoring
35 East Greenland An assessment has never been conducted Abundance and trend unknown BB Telemetry data collected in NE Greenland from 1990s and Data deficient
36 Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut World s largest National Park Two main towns and 5 settlements with year-round inhabitants ~3,500 people Ittoqqortoormiit (Scoresby Sound) Tasiilaq (and settlements)
37 For scale 84 O N Greenland Alaska 60 O N Polar Stereographic WGS84
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39 East Greenland Resource selection modeling of sea ice habitat selection in East Greenland using historical data Collars in 1990s and mid-2000s Laidre et al. (2015) Polar Biology
40 March-April 2015: SE Greenland Pilot Study Never been studied before Pack ice Captures in fast and glacial ice
41 N=30 bears captured (10 collars)
42 April 2015: Pilot aerial survey Repeat in 2016
43 TEK Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut Baffin Bay and Kane Basin Born, Helimann, Kielsen Holm, and Laidre (2011) Polar Bears in Northwest Greenland. Monographs on Greenland.
44 East Greenland TEK Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut The first step in an EG assessment was a TEK interview study ( ) Completed interviews with n=25 full-time hunters in the two EG communities (Ittorqqortoormiit and Tasiilaq) Similar to Born et al. (2011)
45 Interview studies Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut Inuit knowledge on polar bears in East Greenland 2015 Changes in the catch after quotas were established in 2006 Impacts from climate change on the catch and the polar bears Opinions about important areas to cover/consider for the EG assessment Provide information on the current economic and social significance of the polar bear hunt in East Greenland Photo: F. Ugarte
46 Translations of surveys: spring 2015 Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut Photo: F. Ugarte
47 Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut Interview survey in East Greenland conducted in 1999
48 Ability to compare over decades Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut
49 We used the information from hunters to search for and capture bears during the SE Greenland pilot study Photo: F. Ugarte
50 Health and condition: West and East Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut University of Aarhus (Dietz and Sonne): Long term projects on contaminant levels based on polar bear harvest samples and polar bear captures. Part of Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) under the Arctic Council.
51 Harvest monitoring: West and East In 2012, the Government of Greenland requested that a genetic sample will be submitted from all polar bear catches as a requisite for a polar bear hunting license Sex, skin/hair, tooth for age and details on each catch Start of a long-term genetic database in Greenland and detailed catch information
52 Pinngortitaleriffik Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Grønlands Naturinstitut Photo: F. Ugarte
53 Qujanaq. Thank you for your attention. Photos by Kristin Laidre, Carsten Egevang and Fernando Ugarte
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