Sea Legacy, the group behind the now infamous video of the starving polar bear, was not only criticized for not intervening to help the struggling creature. But one of Sea Legacy’s leaders made factually untrue and racist claims about native polar bear hunting, the Canadian Inuit tribe alleges.
In an email sent Tuesday by SeaLegacy co-founder Cristina Mittermeier told the show hosts of the Canadian Broadcasting Company‘s show As It Happens:
Inuit people make a lot of money from polar bear trophy hunting. Of course it is in their best interest to say that polar bears are happy and healthy and that climate change is a joke, because otherwise their quota might be reduced.
While Mittermeier later apologized for her remarks, as it turns out, the emaciated polar bear was filmed near Baffin Island in Nunavut. The bear was pitched as the face of climate change by American and…
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