America Films Ltd. is a subsidiary of Wildstar Films and we are producing a new six part wildlife series for the National Geographic channel. This series will be celebrating the wildlife and landscapes of North America by bringing together new science and wildlife stories, through cutting edge equipment and ground breaking filming techniques. We’re not just hoping to make people fall in love with the North American landscape and wildlife, but also to highlight that this is a time of great change and environmental concern for all of us. We are hoping to travel to Coats Island to film various predators hunting Murres on the cliffs there. These would include Arctic Foxes and Glaucous Gulls, but our main focus would be on the Polar Bears that visit these colonies. Whilst we are there we would also pick up general shots of other wildlife that live on and around the islands, such as walrus, etc. We would be planning to film using a combination of different camera systems, including drones, gimbal camera system mounted onto a boat and tripod mounted cameras with a zoom lens. As well as filming from a boat, we may also place remote cameras on the cliff face or use a climbing platform so that a camera person could film from the cliff face as the bears made their way through the bird colony. We are planning on visiting Coats Island, alongside Grant Gilchrist’s scientific teams studying the Murre colonies there, from around the 13th July until the 8th August 2020. Our team would either be staying in one of the already established huts used by the research teams on the island or on board a boat. If we stay at the huts used by the research teams, we would be following similar procedures already in place for water collection and waste removal. Any structures erected at the huts would be temporary [electric fences, storage tents, etc.]. All temporary structures, waste, etc would be removed when the team leave the location at the end of filming. We are planning to film natural behaviours as they occur from year to year on the island and are not looking to capture, tag or otherwise unduly disturb the animals at this location. We are submitting this application to see if we need any form of permits from the NPC or local land owners such as the Kivalliq Inuit Association. We are more than happy to provide more information or discuss this proposal in more detail. I apologise if some of our answers are rough or guesstimates at this stage, as we are still in the process of talking to all potential parties and providers, so we may not have all the information. We greatly appreciate any information or guidance that you can provide to us at this time. Thank you for your time.