caribou calving – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all. Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:47:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.greensocialthought.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-ggef_logo_small-1-32x32.png caribou calving – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org 32 32 At the edge of the Arctic Circle, oil drilling threatens the indigenous Gwich’in https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/edge-arctic-circle-oil-drilling-threatens-indigenous-gwich/ Wed, 04 Jul 2018 14:20:08 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/edge-arctic-circle-oil-drilling-threatens-indigenous-gwich/ by Nathanael Johnson

The low boreal forest that spans the border between Alaska and Canada is the home of the Gwich’in people. There are some 6,000 Gwich’in, hunting and raising their children in villages at the edge of the Arctic Circle. They’ve been there for thousands of years, following the caribou, which provide a majority of their diet, even today. Bernadette Demientieff, executive director of the Gwich’in steering committee, fears that the herd, and the culture that depends on them, will not survive if oil drilling is allowed on caribou calving grounds.]]> by Nathanael Johnson

The low boreal forest that spans the border between Alaska and Canada is the home of the Gwich’in people. There are some 6,000 Gwich’in, hunting and raising their children in villages at the edge of the Arctic Circle. They’ve been there for thousands of years, following the caribou, which provide a majority of their diet, even today.

Bernadette Demientieff, executive director of the Gwich’in steering committee, fears that the herd, and the culture that depends on them, will not survive if oil drilling is allowed on caribou calving grounds.

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