Sentences with phrase «subsistence hunters»

Inuit polar bear subsistence hunters from two East Greenland regions, Tasiilaq and Ittoqqortoormiit, report changes to their hunting patterns as well as polar bear distribution and behavior due to decreasing sea ice and the...

For example, narwhals in northwest Greenland have long been hunted by subsistence hunters, notes study co-author Fernando Ugarte, head of the department of birds and mammals at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk.

A second project works with subsistence hunters in communities that depend seasonally on coastal sea ice for travel, hunting, or both, to furnish a systematic understanding of the dynamics of nearshore ice.

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.

Next week: Subsistence hunters serving as «citizen scientists» help Brinkman's team by providing detailed observations about climate change - driven changes in their areas that have made hunting, fishing and trapping more difficult.

He wants to stay ahead of the next pandemic by studying subsistence hunters and the animals they hunt.

But a new study reveals that subsistence hunters from small communities in large areas of intact forest and with access to healthy fish stocks do not appear to be emptying their forests.

Working with 60 Amazonian communities in the Juruá and Uatumã regions of Amazonas, Brazil, they deployed 383 motion - activated camera traps and conducted 78 interviews with subsistence hunters.

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.

The animal samples used in the research were all provided by subsistence hunters and trappers.

But a new study published in PLOS ONE reveals that subsistence hunters from small communities in large areas of intact forest and with access to healthy fish stocks do not appear to be emptying their forests.

It also led to a «Wolf Summit» in January, where sport and subsistence hunters, environmentalists, and state officials gathered to present their cases.

But subsistence hunters are not the biggest part of the problem, Fa says.

Animals from primates to snakes are valuable commodities in the thriving, albeit illegal, worldwide trade of bushmeat, defined as wildlife killed either by commercial or subsistence hunters.

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.

Subsistence hunters from four communities in northern Alaska participated in the study.

National Geographic reports that the animals face threats from a growing human population on the islands where they live, as well as being killed by subsistence hunters.