Particular disquiet, however, is now being expressed about the place of polar bear hunting by indigenous Northerners [4] at a time when the species is believed to be under increasing environmental stress due to anthropogenic global warming and the transport of various man-made contaminants into the Arctic. A subtext to the issue of Aboriginal polar bear harvesting is an ACPB provision that permits Canadian Inuit to sell polar bear hunting rights to non-indigenous sportsmen.