Sentences with phrase «native subsistence»

The Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook (SIWO), a contribution to SEARCH, is a resource for Alaska Native subsistence hunters, coastal communities, and others interested in sea ice and walrus.

They provide bounty for Native subsistence communities.

The Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook (SIWO), which provides information on spring sea ice, weather and walrus for Alaska Native subsistence hunters and coastal communities in the Bering Strait region, will be published each Friday this spring while sea ice is present.

The 45 - day Call seeks to gather information about specific areas within the Beaufort Sea Planning Area that have the most promising oil and gas resource potential, while also increasing the agency's understanding about environmentally sensitive habitats and important social and cultural uses — including vital Alaska Native subsistence activities — that also exist within the area.

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Before Spanish colonization, the natives cultivated the soil using rudimentary, subsistence - level methods; therefore, the exploited geographic areas were very limited.

Patricia Cochran, an Inupiat from Northwestern Alaska, is talking about the native foods of her childhood: «We pretty much had a subsistence way of life.

This is also key to the native Yupik and Iñupiat, who inhabit the Bering Strait region and rely heavily on marine mammals for subsistence.

The proposed designation would not, however, stop the subsistence hunt of the seals by Alaska natives.

Natives in Peru's Esé - eja community of Infierno wanted to generate income without destroying their rainforest home, central to their subsistence lifestyle.

In a region heavily populated by native Alaskans, many of whom are subsistence hunters, gatherers and fishers, spending hundreds of dollars for a spay or neuter surgery is hard to justify.

Some Alaska Native peoples continue by tradition to hunt bowhead and beluga whales on a subsistence level, with low annual bowhead total quotas set by the International Whaling Commission in conjunction with individual village limits set by the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission.

The Russian IWC delegation has said that the hunt is justified under the aboriginal / subsistence exemption, since the fur farms provide a necessary economic base for the region's native population.

One proposed project would document traditional Alaska Native place names for bodies of water, bays, mountains, valleys, promontories or other geographic landmarks in these units, thus also greatly enhancing our knowledge of how the parklands facilitated subsistence and functioned as a cultural crossroads for at least 9,000 years.

«Just because J.J. is famous and has a transmitter on her back, there is no law to prevent a whaler from putting a harpoon into her and killing her,» said whale expert David Phillips of the San Francisco - based Earth Island Institute, which opposes whaling except in «subsistence» bases involving native peoples.

Obama called attention to the damage all that warming has inflicted on Alaskans, especially Native peoples and others who derive subsistence or livelihood from the land or sea.

However, the most vulnerable, including those dependent on subsistence lifestyles, especially Alaska Natives and low - income populations, will confront shortages of key foods.

Note: Just days after the hearing and the passage of the resolution, the US delegation to the International Whaling Commission, led by William Hogarth, also chair of the Commission, disregarded the resolution and voted in favor of additional whales to be killed by Greenland natives, despite a failure to document a subsistence need.

And McLinn's students are largely natives, so their families depend on local salmon and plants for subsistence.

Today — due to the important, irreplaceable values of its Arctic waters for Indigenous, Alaska Native and local communities» subsistence and cultures, wildlife and wildlife habitat, and scientific research; the vulnerability of these ecosystems to an oil spill; and the unique logistical, operational, safety, and scientific challenges and risks of oil extraction and spill response in Arctic waters — the United States is designating the vast majority of U.S. waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing, and Canada will designate all Arctic Canadian waters as indefinitely off limits to future offshore Arctic oil and gas licensing, to be reviewed every five years through a climate and marine science - based life - cycle assessment.

The extinguishment of native title hunting and fishing rights over such a vast area in a situation where subsistence activities are of major importance has itself been highly problematic, and has necessitated protection of hunting and fishing rights through various separate state and federal pieces of legislation - a situation which created administrative difficulty and uncertainty about the long term security of the rights.

The more general the terms in which the findings are made as to the subsistence of native title, the more difficult the giving of specificity to findings of extinguishment, particularly where, as the NTA postulates, there may be partial extinguishment.

For example, activities pursuant to native title rights are restricted to pre-contract methods of exercising those rights (subsistence fishing, not commercial fishing).

Subsistence native title fishing rights, however, would be exempted from regulation by virtue of s 211 of the NTA.