That's an important question. You're right. Right now some fundamental work needs to be done with the Nunavut Planning Commission to look at a more evidence-based approach. Again, the caribou herds are really a preoccupation of the Inuit. We need to work on determining why there are significant declines in the caribou populations. I think one of the herds has gone from 450,000 to 16,000 caribou. There are moratoriums on hunting, so in some ways we're infringing on indigenous rights.
We need to take a more science-based, evidence-based approach to looking at that, and the vast geography sometimes limits our ability to get out there and figure out what's going on. We need to incorporate more traditional knowledge. This summer we had the Tlicho as an example. The Tlicho are in the NWT but they hunt herds. There are no borders for those herds. They're testing their traditional knowledge and they're going to bring back that information.
That all helps to inform us as to what's going on, and that will help inform the protection measures that the NPC wants to put in place in protecting caribou and caribou calving grounds to ensure industrial development doesn't impact on that. At the same time, we have to be balanced in our approach. We need to ensure that we have a sustainable exploration industry, because that's how you have a sustainable mining industry, given the contribution that mining resource development makes to the north.