Utqiaġvik, Alaska — Chairman Charles Brower and the Alaska Nannut Co-Management Council are pleased to announce that Maija Katak Lukin (Iñupiaq) has been selected to serve as the Council’s next Executive Director.
Kaktovik, Alaska – Native Village of Kaktovik (“NVK”), Alaska Nannut Co-Management Council (“ANCC”), and Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (“AEWC”) are outraged at the sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline in a case against Christopher Gordon, a 36-year-old Kaktovik Alaska hunter, and the overall manner in which this case was handled by…
Nome, Alaska – The Alaska Nannut Co-Management Council (“ANCC”) is concerned to learn of an alleged wasteful harvest of a polar bear in Kaktovik, Alaska and that the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced a decision yesterday to pursue criminal charges for the alleged violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (“MMPA”), based on an investigation conducted…
The 10th annual meeting of the U.S.-Russia Polar Bear Commission (Commission) took place in Egvekinot, Chukotka Autonomous Region, Russian Federation July 27-28, 2018. Based on updated science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), the Commission unanimously voted to increase the annual sustainable harvest level of the Alaska-Chukotka polar bear population, which inhabits the Chukchi Sea region…