What are newfoundland and Labrador's environmental problems?

Can someone tell me serious environmental issues that Newfoundland and Labrador [Canada] are currently facing



ThanksWhat are newfoundland and Labrador's environmental problems?From the Inuktitut word Torngait , meaning “place of spirits”, the Torngat Mountains have been home to Inuit and their predecessors for thousands of years. The spectacular wilderness of this National Park comprises 9,700 km2 of the Northern Labrador Mountains natural region. The park extends from Saglek Fjord in the south, including all islands and islets, to the very northern tip of Labrador; and from the provincial boundary with Quebec in the west, to the iceberg-choked waters of the Labrador Sea in the east. The mountain peaks along the border with Quebec are the highest in mainland Canada east of the Rockies, and are dotted with remnant glaciers. Polar bears hunt seals along the coast, and both the Torngat Mountains and George River caribou herds cross paths as they migrate to and from their calving grounds. Today, Inuit continue to use this area for hunting, fishing, and travelling throughout the year.

http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/nl/torngat… ------------- Voisey's Bay Mine and Mill Environmental Assessment Panel Report http://www.ceaa.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=E… ----------------- Combining Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science Combining Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science



Environment Canada scientists present water chemistry results to the Innu Elders. Click to enlarge.



Centuries of living off the land have given Aboriginal peoples in Canada a unique understanding of plants, animals and natural phenomena. As a result, they have developed special techniques for hunting, fishing, agriculture and forestry. Environmental science, especially in Canada's north, is making strong connections with traditional knowledge in an effort to link it with science, particularly in the area of environmental management and conservation.



The Ashkui Project

Since 1998, Environment Canada, in partnership with the Innu Nation, the Gorsebrook Research Institute of Saint Mary's University (Nova Scotia) and Natural Resources Canada, has been exploring new ways to connect traditional knowledge and western science.





Ashkui are areas of early or permanently open water which are an important resource to Innu in the spring. Researchers from the Innu Nation are helping natural and social scientists investigate these sites and translate project findings to members of the Innu community. Click to enlarge.



The result is the Ashkui Project—an innovative project based on the idea that a combined form of ecological knowledge can be developed that recognizes the qualities and limitations of traditional- and scientific-knowledge systems and situates both within the context of the times in which they are produced.



The project is using the knowledge of the people of Nitassinan, the ancestral homeland of the Innu encompassing much of the sub-arctic forest and interior barren lands of the Quebec-Labrador peninsula to examine the landscape and the ecology of the land.



http://www.ec.gc.ca/EnviroZine/english/i… ---------------- The Ashkui Project: Understanding the landscape of Labrador from Innu and scientific perspectives http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/conservation/ashk…