A hero of mine: Sarah James won the Goldman Prize in 2002 for her effort to preserve and protect Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) from oil exploration and drilling and the effects of climate change. ANWR is home to more than 180 bird species, 36 species of freshwater fish, and mammals including polar bears, wolverines, moose and Dall sheep. The narrow coastal plain of the refuge also is the birthplace and nursing grounds of 130,000 Porcupine Caribou, on which the Gwich’in people subsist. We are caribou people, said James. Its our clothing, our story, our song, our dance and our food thats who we are.”
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:52:15 +0000
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