Editing Economy of Greenland (section)

===Hunting and whaling===
{{see also|Reindeer hunting in Greenland}}
[[Whaling]] and [[seal hunting]] were once traditional mainstays of Greenland's economy. Greenlanders still kill an estimated 170,000 seals a year<ref name="nanook"/> and 175 whales a year,<ref>[http://www.iwcoffice.org/conservation/table_permit.htm Catches under Permit] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806062644/http://www.iwcoffice.org/conservation/table_permit.htm |date=2011-08-06 }}. Iwcoffice.org. Retrieved on 2011-10-11.</ref><ref>[http://www.iwcoffice.org/conservation/table_objection.htm Catches under Objection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613083738/http://iwcoffice.org/conservation/table_objection.htm |date=2010-06-13 }}. Iwcoffice.org. Retrieved on 2011-10-11.</ref> ranking them second and third in the world respectively. Both [[whaling controversy|whaling]] and [[sealing controversy|sealing]] have become controversial, limiting the potential market for their products. As such, the only seal tannery in the country{{spaced ndash}} [[Great Greenland]] in [[Qaqortoq]]{{spaced ndash}} is heavily subsidized by the government<ref name="nanook"/> to maintain the livelihood of smaller communities which are economically dependent on the hunt.<ref>Hovelsrud-Broda, Grete K. "[https://books.google.com/books?id=bdQyaVRqzakC&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101 Contemporary Seal Hunting Households Trade Bans and Subsidies]" in ''At the Interface: The Household and Beyond: Monographs in Economic Anthropology'', Vol. 15. Univ. Press of America, 1999.</ref>

[[Reindeer]] or [[caribou]] are found in the northwest of the island, while [[muskox]]en are found in the northeast and at [[Kangerlussuaq]]. Because the muskoxen's natural range favors the protected [[Northeast Greenland National Park]], it is a less common object of hunting than in the past. [[Polar bear#Exploitation|Polar bear]] and [[reindeer hunting in Greenland]] still occur but are regulated to avoid endangering the populations.