Internationalisation

INTERNATIONALISATION is to make international or to put under international control.

Multi-lateral agreement between five arctic nations, //International agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears and their Habitat// – “...agreement recognized the rights of members of local communities to hunt polar bears” (p.312), within scientific framework (PBSG) – “...domestic Canadian approaches to polar bear management have been inseparable from the wider international framework of arctic scientific exchanges” (p.313) – “[PBSG] attempt[s] to balance conventional notions of wildlife protection with support for the principles of Aboriginal hunting rights” (p.313) – “Aboriginal hunters...and local communities have been drawn into...the increasingly complex system o Canadian and international polar bear management. – “Multiple governments have responsibilities for the Arctic’s 19 populations of polar bears. Canada’s 13 polar bear populations (15,500)...total two-thirds of the world population. International management issues for Canada’s governments arise in areas where polar bears are shared with Alaska and Greenland” (p.206) – “continued hunting of polar bears is essential to maintain the dietary, cultural, and economic base of the groups” and that “the maintenance of a sustained harvest for traditional users in perpetuity requires that the number of polar bears taken annually not exceed the productivity of the population” (p.314)
 * Pressure on domestic environmental policies from actors/institutions outside Canada **
 * Bi-lateral agreement ** between Inuvialuit in Canada and Inupiat in Alaska

Polar bear protection involves the participation of many nation states. This can lead to good policy or bad when it comes to the survival of polar bears. With the uncertainty of Polar bear populations, and the different claims made in regards to actual numbers, it is hard to determine just what the right action to take is. Natives in local communities have made the claim of increased populations and claim government agencies are completely wrong with their lower population estimates. The important thing here is the cooperation of these nation states, the north and south, specifically in Canada, to ensure the survival of this wonderful species. A large amount of attention drawn to the polar bear issue and what is happening to their habit might be what is needed to gain more protection because other than the few countries the contain polar bear habitat this debate does not affect most people in the world.