Sentences with phrase «subsistence hunting in»

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.

Lead author Dr Mark Abrahams, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said: «Understanding the impacts of subsistence hunting in tropical forests is crucial not only to safeguard the world's most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystems, but also to secure a sustainable future for forest - dependent communities.»

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The company has also agreed to start a bowhead - whale - monitoring programme from 1 August, and to suspend drilling in the Beaufort from 25 August until after locals have finished their subsistence hunts.

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.

Evaluate possibility of local subsistence hunting of selected small game species in villages zones for local communities, with absolutely no export, and strictly only where demonstrated sustainable

While many ethnic groups have hunted wildlife for subsistence over millennia, often with highly detrimental effects [8], the unsustainablility of this practice has accelerated in many areas due to growing human populations, an increasing tendency for wild meat to be traded commercially [9], and the widespread adoption of firearms and motorized transport that increase the efficiency and spatial extent of hunting [10,11].

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.

In WAAWAASHKESHIWI - WIIYAAS Miner reclaims this story along with his gichi - aanikoobijigan's right to subsistence hunting.

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.

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.

Polar bears throughout the Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf were severely overharvested before the establishment of quotas in Canada in 1968 and the cessation of all but subsistence polar bear hunting in Alaska in 1972.

«Although polar bear hides taken in the subsistence hunt have commercial value, revenues from nonresident trophy hunting provide a much greater economic return to the Inuit.

The reason or purpose underlying paragraph 12 [of the NRTA] was to secure to the Indians a supply of game and fish for their support and subsistence and clearly to permit hunting, trapping and fishing for food... In my view the distinction that Dickson J. drew in Moosehunter between hunting for «support and subsistence», and hunting for «sport or commercially» is far more consistent with the spirit of Treaty No. 8 and with the proposition that one should not assume that the legislature intended to abrogate or derogate from Treaty 8 hunting rights than the respondent's submission that in using the term «for food» the legislature intended to restrict Treaty 8 hunting rights to hunting for direct consumption of the product of the hunt.In my view the distinction that Dickson J. drew in Moosehunter between hunting for «support and subsistence», and hunting for «sport or commercially» is far more consistent with the spirit of Treaty No. 8 and with the proposition that one should not assume that the legislature intended to abrogate or derogate from Treaty 8 hunting rights than the respondent's submission that in using the term «for food» the legislature intended to restrict Treaty 8 hunting rights to hunting for direct consumption of the product of the hunt.in Moosehunter between hunting for «support and subsistence», and hunting for «sport or commercially» is far more consistent with the spirit of Treaty No. 8 and with the proposition that one should not assume that the legislature intended to abrogate or derogate from Treaty 8 hunting rights than the respondent's submission that in using the term «for food» the legislature intended to restrict Treaty 8 hunting rights to hunting for direct consumption of the product of the hunt.in using the term «for food» the legislature intended to restrict Treaty 8 hunting rights to hunting for direct consumption of the product of the hunt.36

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.

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.