How to Learn More: Useful Links and Resources

General Arctic Resources: 

Arctic Council Homepage: https://arctic-council.org/en/

List of Working Groups: https://arctic-council.org/en/about/working-groups/

United States Arctic Region Information: https://www.state.gov/key-topics-office-of-ocean-and-polar-affairs/arctic/

 

Caribou Specific Resources: 

Caribou Overview: https://arcticwwf.org/species/reindeer-caribou/.

Overview of the Arctic Biodiversity Congress: https://www.arcticbiodiversity.is/index.php/about-the-congress/purpose-and-goals

Consevation of Flora and Fauna Working Group Homepage: https://www.caff.is

Arctice about Changing Warming Patterns: https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-greenland-warms-natures-seasonal-clock-is-thrown-off-kilter

Overview Article About Mosquitos in the Arctic: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/09/arctic-mosquitoes-and-the-chaos-of-climate-change/405322/

Arctic Sealing Resources

Overview of the Inuit Seal Hunt: https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/inuit-defend-canadas-seal-hunt

Canadian Seal Products Homepage: https://canadiansealproducts.com/

EU Seal Hunt Regulations: https://ec.europa.eu/environment/biodiversity/animal_welfare/seals/seal_hunting.htm

Canadian Report on the Seal Harvest: https://lop.parl.ca/staticfiles/PublicWebsite/Home/ResearchPublications/BackgroundPapers/PDF/2017-18-e.pdf

Article about “Sealfies” and Indigenous Activism: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/28/inuit-seal-sealfies-selfie-degeneres-oscars

Aboriginal Whaling Resources

Overview of bowhead whaling: https://iwc.int/aboriginal AND https://toolkit.climate.gov/videos/arctic-currents-year-life-bowhead-whale

Overview of the importance of whaling to Alaskan communities: https://iwc.int/alaska

Climate change on the Arctic: https://www.amap.no/documents/download/1105/inline

SeaShare: https://www.seashare.org/work

Whaling Convention Amendments Act of 2018: https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/release/alaska-delegation-bill-works-to-protect-alaska-native-whaling-quota

Weapons Improvement Program (WIP): http://www.aewc-alaska.org/wip.html

Community Based Monitoring and Indigenous Knowledge

The Snowchange Cooperative in Finland: http://www.snowchange.org/

Sea Ice Atlas from the Sea Ice Knowledge and Use project:  https://sikuatlas.ca/index.html

Nunavik Research Center in Quebec, Canada: https://www.makivik.org/nunavik-research-centre/

Home page to the International Arctic Science Committee: https://iasc.info/