Two wildlife photographers from Turkey have issued an apology for posting a video to social media in which they criticized Native hunters in Nunavut for hunting polar bears.
The men, Süha Derbent and Murat Uslu, had planned a 10-day trip to Arctic Bay to document how climate change is affecting the Arctic, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. They also planned to photograph polar bears, but reported that local outfitters had stopped them from venturing out onto an ice floe and potentially interfering with a hunt. According to local regulations, tourists are not permitted to get close to hunters — including polar bear hunters. “Please respect Inuit subsistence hunting, fishing and trapping rights and refrain from interfering with these activities,” reads one ecotourism handbook for a Nunavut hamlet.
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