a disruption to food security,
including subsistence hunting and gathering livelihoods and biodiversity loss, increase in the need for and the cost of food supply, storage and transportation, and an increase in food - borne diseases.
Not exact matches
Since 1998, Earthjustice has gone to court three times to protect this region from oil and gas leasing and its harmful effects on sensitive areas,
including calving and insect - relief habitats for caribou, molting and nesting areas for various birds, and
subsistence hunting and fishing grounds for local people.
Threats
include a growing human population and
subsistence hunting.
Huntington's research activities
include reviewing the regulation of
subsistence hunting in northern Alaska, documenting traditional ecological knowledge of beluga whales and bowhead whales, examining Iñupiat Eskimo and Inuit knowledge and use of sea ice, and assessing the impacts of climate change on Arctic communities and Arctic marine mammals.