{"id":624652,"date":"2026-04-24T02:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624652\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:51:12","slug":"hamlet-of-baker-lake-sao-face-wildlife-act-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624652\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet of Baker Lake, SAO face Wildlife Act charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\"><a class=\"category crime\" href=\"https:\/\/nunatsiaq.com\/tag\/crime\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justice<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Apr 23, 2026 \u2013 6:10 pm EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"subhead\">Single count relates to allegation of allowing edible caribou, muskox meat to spoil <\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Baker-Lake-scaled-1-1.jpg\" title=\"Hamlet of Baker Lake, SAO face Wildlife Act charge\"><br \/>\n                                <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Baker-Lake-scaled-1-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" title=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hamlet of Baker Lake and its senior administrative officer Sheldon Dorey are each charged under Nunavut\u2019s Wildlife Act. (File photo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/nunatsiaq.com\/author\/jeffp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4759-scaled-e1741889299927-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n\t Jeff Pelletier<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hamlet of Baker Lake and its senior administrative officer Sheldon Dorey have been charged under Nunavut\u2019s Wildlife Act.<\/p>\n<p>The hamlet and Dorey are each listed in court documents as being charged with one count of allowing the edible parts of game to spoil \u2014 specifically, caribou and muskox \u2014 contrary to section 76(2) of the act.<\/p>\n<p>A conservation officer alleges the incident took place on or about Nov. 4, 2024, according to the documents. The charge was filed in court on Sept. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Dorey declined to comment due to the case being before the court, when he was reached at the hamlet office.<\/p>\n<p>The first court appearance in this case was Nov. 25 in Baker Lake.<\/p>\n<p>The next court date is set for July 21, also in Baker Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Nunavut\u2019s wildlife laws are summarized in the \u201cgeneral prohibitions\u201d section of the Nunavut Hunting Regulations handbook. A new version of that document is published annually on the Government of Nunavut\u2019s Department of Environment website.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nunatsiaq.com\/ads\/260417-co-op\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"373\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260417.100.99.png\" class=\"no-lazy-load wp-post-image\" title=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an offence to waste, destroy, abandon or allow to spoil: the meat of big game, other than bear, wolf or wolverine; and the raw pelt or hide of any fur\u00adbearing animal, including bears,\u201d the book states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe following are not considered waste if they are left behind with regards to ungulates [hooved, herbivorous animals such as muskox or caribou]: the head, the legs below the knee joint, the internal organs, the bones when stripped of meat, the parts of the carcass damaged by the harvesting method, and any part of a diseased animal that the harvester reports to a conservation officer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justice\u00a0\u00a0Apr 23, 2026 \u2013 6:10 pm EDT Single count relates to allegation of allowing edible caribou, muskox meat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-624652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}