Arctic Indigenous Voices
Increased Arctic shipping due to climate change can have a major impact on the Arctic environment, and thus indigenous communities. Increased shipping may significantly affect specific Arctic waters, food security, subsistence activities, the environment and wildlife. Arctic communities, Arctic food security, and Indigenous peoples’ cultures stand to be impacted by increased shipping. Many issues and concerns surrounding increased shipping are discussed across multiple regional, national, and international government bodies. However, the IMO, a specialized agency of the United Nations, is the only agency that sets international maritime rules.
With increased international vessel transits through Arctic waters, there is a need to set standards that protect the livelihoods of Arctic Indigenous peoples. However, there is a glaring lack of direct input or independent representation by Arctic Indigenous peoples in creating or advising on the development of international maritime law for the region.
We seek to advocate for Arctic Indigenous voices to be heard, partner with Indigenous organizations to advance joint environmental interests and initiatives, and empower Arctic peoples through capacity building.
Fish and Wildlife Service is rightly being sent back to the drawing board to recalculate important factors that could make-or-break the struggling polar bear population on Alaska's North Slope.
A broad coalition of forest advocates is seeking to defend last year’s reinstatement of National Roadless Rule protections across the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska through several legal challenges.
Environmental groups intend to challenge today’s federal court ruling that the Willow oil drilling project in Alaska’s Western Arctic can proceed.
A years-long battle over a proposed mine in Alaska ended when a coalition that included Friends of the Earth successfully pushed the US Army Corps of Engineers to deny Pebble Mine a permit to operate in Bristol Bay, killing the project!
This is yet another blow to efforts to drill in the protected wilderness that means so much to local communities and creatures.
More than 111,000 Friends of the Earth members demanded that the Forest Service permanently protect our National Forests from corporations
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is many things at once. The good and the bad all need to be considered together.
It is important for Arctic Indigenous peoples to be heard at this crucial meeting, to help people understand why we need the Arctic to remain cool by reducing emissions from shipping and other sectors.
It’s not every day that elder Alaska Natives are heard and respected by leaders from around the world.