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The owner of a remote victim lodge in North Manitoba says that he wants a reply after the “collective slaughter” of Karibu and serious property damage last month, but the police warned that the images of the dead animals could not tell the whole story.

Nick Skigliano, the US-based owner at Nuultin Lake Lodge, says he discovered dozens of dead Karibu and comprehensive property damage during the April 11 investigation by the site, which is about 30 kilometers south of the Manitoba-Nanavut border.

He said in a news release on Tuesday that Skigliano returned to the lodge with police and protection officers on 18 April. He said that pregnant cows and fetus were among dozens of Karibu bodies.

Scigliano is now urging the police and the Manitoba government to “take action to restore law and order.”

“It is not a subsistence victim. They used to kill and left dead bodies at my door. These images will bother me forever,” Skigliano said in the release.

The RCMP is investigating property damage in the lodge while the protection officers are potentially seen in the wasted meat.

Manitoba RCMP spokesman SGT. Paul Managre described the police investigation as “separate and hard”, mainly due to the separation of the area.

“The big issue is just trying to talk to everyone,” he told CBC News in the May 5 interview.

“You have found suspects who can come from 200, 300, 400 kilometers away, and is it possible that they cannot be part of this hunting group? Absolutely. There are lots of variables in playing.”

However, the hunter is considered from the first nation communities nearby, he said.

“When I say closer, you are probably looking, I think, within 100 to 200 kilometers, so it is still a lot of distance on snowmobiles. I think it is probably a difficult aspect, identifying those who are using the field.”

The Lodge Nuletin Lake is located in the Provincial Park, which was mainly established to protect the Karibu Winter Migration routes in 2010 that connects the borial forest with Tundra where Karibu cows have traveled to give birth, according to the Manitoba Lodds and Outfitors Association.

Banjar-land Karibu is not at risk in the region, but their population is in decline, A 2017 study by Nunvut Government found.

The Outfitors Association said in a Tuesday statement, “It should be known without the question that the female karibu is harvested during that late winter season when the cows are preparing to disregard their youth a thorough disregard for animal or its protection, regardless of someone’s race,” Outfitors Association said in a statement on Tuesday.

The association says it is carrying forward the province to introduce the integrated Big-Game management system for all hunters in Manitoba, including a ban on harvesting of women.

CBC News has reviewed the verified images and videos carrying on April 11 and 18, which are released outside the Nuultin Lake Lodge of the Caribo bodies.

On April 11, a two -minute video shows an aerial view of the lodge from a helicopter window. It is a picturesque view to start, which shows the lodge to a traine and icy lake scene, but soon, the red-brown stain can be seen splashing the icy mark.

The camera zoom on the pile of fur, scattering the path with the antles and the hooves. It is difficult to count how many dead Karibu are on the ground only by looking at the footage.

‘Being treated as criminals’: First nation hunter

The treaties signed between the Canadian government and the first nation leaders guaranteed the rights of indigenous hunting and fishing, and then Inherent in the constitution in 1982,

Treaty-based hunters are free from many restrictions that consider non-foreigner hunters, including specific hunting hours or weather and bag limits Manitoba hunting guide,

Myron Cook, a Karibu Hunter of the first nation of barren land in North Manitoba, was not included in Nuletin Lake Hunt, but knows the region well. He says that indigenous hunters of Northern Manitoba, Nunnavut and Suskechewan are often known in the region.

But he said that it is uncommon for the hunter to leave Karibu meat behind, until it was damaged, or the animal was old, injured or sick.

Cook said that he and members of other communities try to hunt the old male Karibu, pregnant cows are cut from time to time. He was left to ruin the fetus, and some communities give treasures to meat.

“That meat is prized and given to the elders,” he said.

“Yes, they eat everything from Karibu. They will eat that fetus. It is a delicateness for some elders.”

Cook said some parts of the body Caribu Hunters typically do not recover at this time of the year, including hiding, abdomen, ribage and head.

“There are many things that could look like bodies, but (perhaps) were just scrap piles.”

Cook hopes that the situation will come to a proper conclusion, but says that he would prefer to consult the first nation’s predators in that area before posting images of dead Karibu on social media on Tuesday.

“I think this is a biased, unilateral story, without (any) consultation to people. It is their ancestral hunt,” he said. “It seems that it is considered as criminals to practice our sovereign rights to provide us for our families.”

He wants people to know that he and many other treaty-based hunters have the most respect for Karibu, especially during the crop.

“Dane, Inute and Cream have been harvesting these Karibu for generations. This is his sovereign indigenous right to cut Karibu.”

Meanwhile, it appears that a court case with the first nation near the land in the Skigliano region is involved in a court case.

Nueltin Lake Lodges recently sued the Northlands Denne First Nation, Provincial and Federal Governments, along with the Treaty Land Eligibility Committee of Manitoba, alleged that it was being excluded from the field talks in the area, according to the claims of the claim in October 2023.

‘Can’t allow this to happen’: Wildlife Federation

Manitoba Wildlife Federation, a conservation organization that represents the interests of the hunter, says dozens of Karibu bodies were found to be buried under deep, fresh ice on 18 April.

Federation’s senior policy advisor Chris Hield says that at the request of Skigliano, employees visiting the lodge were seen on the site that day between 50 to 75 Karibu bodies.

He said on Tuesday, “The meat was buried down, under the piles and furs of the organs and intestines,” he said on Tuesday. “You must melt the snow to count.”

The Federation said in a newspaper on Tuesday that several piles of the deceased Karibu included one of the 10 bodies that were “really well -processed”, and they appeared from a prey first in winter.

It was also stated that the Federation employees saw five Karibu fetuses in the lodge, with many karibu still with half -useable meat.

“As a hunter, I hate that he ruined that volume of meat,” Held said.

“We need the government to lead the discussions – and the leaders of the community need to bring the same message – that we cannot allow it to do so or nothing is left in the future.”

Animal cruelty is difficult to estimate: RCMP

When asked about the dead Karibu during the question period in the Legislature on Tuesday, Manitoba Premier Wab Cneue said that the provincial officials are taking the matter seriously.

He said in Tuesday’s question period, “I have talked directly to those who live in this part of the province and who stay away from the ground, and let me say it unevenly – whoever participates in it has no respect for animals, there is no right to be able to hunt in this province.”

Kinu said that the predators involved in this would be chased “to the full extent of the law”. ,

Mainagre of RCMP said that the police were initially told that 50 Karibu bodies could be released at the lodge site.

“When our officials went and talked to the group there, I think what he was told, the count was nine,” he said. “You can see how rumors can spread rapidly.”

On April 18, Hunters at the lodge site faced RCMP, Managre said, adding Hunters surprised to know that the site was not left.

“We can see a property vacant for five, six years. It is easy that it can be abandoned by local people,” he said.

“What it seems, there are probably quite a few groups that are using this place as a staging area for hunting in this place, so I think when these people were there, the loss was done for a long time.”

Held of the Wildlife Federation says the lodge was well maintained, and would not have been released.

Mainagre said it is difficult to guess whether anyone involved in Karibu Hunt may have to face allegations of animal cruelty.

“If they are hunting because they usually hunt for me, I would not see it. But if it was the animal slaughter without any reason, I might have seen it,” he said. “But what it seems, depending on the details on the scene, the animals were cut and for consumption.”

He said that logistic planning for that kind of hunting is complicated by the number of essential people and equipment to process many Karibu.

“Karibu has a very big animal. You are not going to shoot it and bring it the same. You want to clean it to minimize it.”

Manaigre said that it is believed that the left parts in the lodge were mainly part of Karibu’s shoulder.

He warns anyone who sees the images of Karibu at the lodge site until the police investigation is completed.

“People are going to see small snipites, or photos, who cannot tell the whole story,” he said.

“I want to make a mistake in favor of caution and think that many people who are hunting specialize, and know what is not part of the animal need (vs).”