The Eskimos, indigenous people of Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Russia, traditionally hunt Arctic species ranging from seals to polar bears, whales and caribou, but the warming is reducing the season in which they can do this activity.
“In Canada we see climate change from day to day,” said Violet Ford, an official Canadian Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC, for its acronym in English).
Ford, who was born and raised in the Eskimo community of Makkovik, Labrador, explained that the Arctic and in developing more funds are needed to adapt and respond to climate change.
“That also should go to the Inuit communities as a response to climate change, “Ford said at a news conference in the Danish capital, where there are representatives of 190 governments gathered to discuss a new global climate pact.
“We need infrastructure,” said Ford. “We want community freezers big game if the patterns change as we go hunting only a few times a year,” he added.
ICC President James Stotts of Barrow, Alaska, told the conference that his uncle 78 years fell through theice and froze to death in a time of year the ice would normally be thicker and secure.
“The Eskimos must find new ways to store their meat. Some of our people are literally falling into the sea due to erosion, “he said.
(Reporting by Henriette Jacobsen; Written by John Acher. Published in Spanish by Rex Gowar)
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