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Belcher Islands

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Belcher Islands, c.1,110 sq mi (2,870 sq km), in E Hudson Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, off W Quebec. Flaherty Island is the largest of the tundra-covered group.


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The first concerns the depletion of caribou in the Quebec-Ungava peninsula, and the other the local extinction of caribou in the Belcher Islands.
The study site is the Hamlet of Sanikiluaq on the Belcher Islands in southeastern Hudson Bay, Canada (Figure 1).
The proposed development would have involved damming and diverting several rivers flowing into eastern Hudson Bay, directly off-shore from the Belcher Islands, threatening the land, its wildlife, and its people.
 
 
 
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