Sentences with phrase «indigenous subsistence»

Now, a team of researchers is arguing that the government's response — of placing limits on indigenous subsistence hunting — is misguided.

The province is known for its scenic, ecological and ethnic diversity, but it also is one of the poorest regions in China, populated by indigenous subsistence cultures that rely on forests for their livelihoods.

Not exact matches

Canada can't have it both ways — they can't complain about the cost of First Nation poverty and continually criminalize all Indigenous means of subsistence.

Non-certified organic agriculture in developing countries is practised by millions of indigenous people, peasants and small family farms involved in subsistence and local market - oriented production.

Many human communities want answers about the current status and future of Arctic marine mammals, including scientists who dedicate their lives to study them and indigenous people whose traditional ways of subsistence are intertwined with the fate of species such as ice seals, narwhals, walruses and polar bears.

Among the issues these committees were asked to look into this year were the possible dangers of whale watching, the effects of chemical pollution on whales, how the IWC might protect dolphins, porpoises and other small cetaceans, and whether subsistence whaling by indigenous peoples should be subject to scientific management.

The indigenous Mayan communities that still exist today are the Mopan, Yucatec, and Q'eqchi» Maya who primarily live in southern Belize and engage in subsistence farming.

Through this ongoing project, Miner engenders many complex questions about sport versus subsistence hunting, Indigenous sovereignties, systems of surveillance, and settler - colonial policing.

But proponents of indigenous rights and cultural integrity tend to see it as causing cultural erosion, with the attendant negative impacts to the ecologies that have been cared for by local cultures forever, precisely through their subsistence activities.

The Chukchi Sea is also part of the seasonal migration route for Bowhead whales that supports subsistence hunting by local indigenous communities.

Finally, Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling must be managed in a way that balances the needs of indigenous people with the responsibility to ensure that the hunts are sustainable, humane and accountable to the IWC.

12: Indigenous Peoples).91, 101 Warming also releases human - caused pollutants, such as poleward - transported mercury and organic pesticides, from thawing permafrost and brings new diseases to Arctic plants and animals, including subsistence food species, posing new health challenges, especially to rural communities.165, 166 Positive health effects of warming include a longer growing season for gardening and agriculture.5, 167

Development activities in the Arctic (for example, oil and gas, minerals, tourism, and shipping) are of concern to Indigenous communities, from both perceived threats and anticipated benefits.149 Greater levels of industrial activity might alter the distribution of species, disrupt subsistence activities, increase the risk of oil spills, and create various social impacts.

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.

Think: wilderness protection schemes, like national parks in Canada, that have ejected Indigenous peoples from their traditional territories rendering them homeless and prevented from using their traditional lands for subsistence.)

Similarly, Indigenous peoples in developing countries have suffered grave human rights violations (including expulsion of traditional territories, forced relocation and the use of force to deny them access to resources needed for subsistence) under conservation schemes which purport to protect the forests, wildlife, or wilderness but not the people who have co-existed with them for centuries.

Article 20 of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples protects the right of Indigenous peoples to secure their subsistence.

Whilst the cultural economy is understood by governments and others to describe the subsistence economy of the traditional owners [76], the Indigenous Nations of the MDB «use cultural economy to express themes of ecological restoration and repair, using the logic of holism to connect ecology, culture and economy».

Australia will quite likely continue to be brought to task by UN treaty committees where there is a failure to adequately recognise and protect the human rights of Australia's Indigenous peoples, including the right to own and inherit property and the right not to be deprived of their own means of subsistence.

An exemption from prohibitions on taking whales is provided under the Convention for Indigenous peoples, who can take whales for traditional subsistence purposes.

Indigenous participation in the management of environment, cultural heritage and climate change Indigenous Australians have had very limited influence in decision - making affecting their natural environment and their means of subsistence.

Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and develop their political, economic and social systems or institutions, to be secure in the enjoyment of their own means of subsistence and development, and to engage freely in all their traditional and other economic activities.

Increase Indigenous participation in the development and implementation of government policies and programs in environmental, cultural heritage and climate change Indigenous Australians that impacts on Indigenous peoples» lands, natural environment and their means of subsistence; and