alaska's arctic national wildlife refuge known as. protected by the u.s. government but also contested for decades. clinging to the icy tundra on the shore of the both at sea in the arctic ocean is qatar the eat some unlikely tourist hot spot at the edge of the world. that it will see from very out of over there do it. all. a resident of more than 30 years today a local god robert thompson is taking me out into the lagoon to be the main attraction. the polar bears. around for more now because you have a church going way down i should not an outer they're going to going to come ashore . come to reform or are going to sink or swim nation or float around bridges. are coming for. them to make it. it's utterly breathtaking to say the polar bears in their natural environment but it's also kind of sad when you consider that just a few decades ago they would have a mass right up to the edge of the village and now it's hundreds of kilometers away . scientists estimate that there are about 25000 polar bears left in the wild here in the u.s. they listed as a threat and. bases and they might be extinct in alaska by 2050. that mike's qatar big a blake mecca for 2 wrists cane to catch a glimpse and a photo of polar bears in the wild before they go on. their alaska has always been on my bucket list this is my 2nd trip to alaska polar bears they are incredibly adorable. i mean you just like get family you just want to play with them of course it's not safe. we see bears you're beautiful she and i should everything but. they're in peril you're going to be gone they become extinct. people cause you. and know that were aware of it we should do what we could mitigate it but not many people are especially the president we have no use taking us out of the parish agreement and every road for around to try to open up more resources for the moment even here in oregon. the tovey can it surrounds or at the center of a battle between the go away and conservation. less than 200 kilometers from here is the country's most productive oil field put out by. this is the trans alaskan pipeline which traverses 3 mountain ranges and more than $500.00 rivers and streams across icy tundra from the top to the bottom of alaska to deliver or oil to americans and of course that's what it's all about delivering energy to a hungry night sion which even now continues to increase its consumption of crude oil as the oil field begins to run lawyer donald trump has big plans to open up and walk. but not without a 5. i'm on my way to make the indigenous people leading the opposition. the good cheer made up of 15 communities across alaska and canada. this. is seal skin then a date demented is coordinating the campaign from the central alaskan city a favor. really candor. our ancestors lived and survived off this land for thousands of years and now we have a government coming in saying you can destroy what we've held sacred for so long we're not only being attacked by this government but we're being attacked by climate change and i worry i worry about my children survival everything that i know now i cannot. and that's why i think it's important that we use our voices. most live in remote areas like. an aptly named settlement on the age of the arctic circle. the only way to get here is by. it's home to about 150 people. everything in the remote community is flown in. and prices are high. people here rely on hunting the caribou to get them through the long winter months. when i 1st harvest my 1st caribou i was 9. even at a young age they started teaching us only take what you need. that's when i was really introduced to you know this fight you know to protect these you know cut our land. while hunting is a rite of passage the tribes young men like general john see themselves as custody ends of the land and animals slander set aside for us and we're doing our job you know protecting it know as lanky peers. we handed out no we cut it up into pieces and make sure that not everybody gets a good meal that's never been for them a chance to get old. you know underground they'll say hey. this is the way that we were taught and this is the way we practice and this is the way we. can pass on our teachings. the guys have killed this one caribou and you can see that they're starting to process it in the field of pull the in trials out there taking the skin off and then they're going to pack it down to the village and cut it up and distribute it to the community and they really pride themselves on nothing going to weist. the star and have to try campbell which trips. you know. and you know how we need it. you make it even page where sarah james is one of the great chin elders heard this very tenderly could be good for toothless people and yet so i gotta warn people so hard that's how they spread them out and the smoke and us right now as winter learns she's busy preserving caribbean nation which has been the staple food for the weekend for generations we were one whole nation of people and we call ourselves a good and very in the bone marrow. and that's how we always feel if. we were colonized into a village because a force was trying each patient on us and to have a school or to have our kids to go to school we have to we have to colonize into a village who are weekend some wife. sarah james has been campaigning for much of her life to protect the arctic national wildlife refuge her community is deeply concerned that drilling for oil and gas will disrupt the caribou migration. 75 years and i can remember since 1950 and it's always been my way of life protect the care bill it's nothing new and nothing new to any anyone up last. time we have. everywhere around here we've made. them. and the oil company car full we had a great education to do because they don't even know there was good and they don't even know there was an article it's someone then don't even know there was an article left. the oil companies want taxes to the area known as the 10 hour to a 1500000 i guess why the tundra at the top of the refuge this is where the far right wing porcupine cariboo give birth. it's a sacred ground it's a birthplace is it god's got it by gold plated that means a sacred place for the life begins and to us is also our birth place because if it wasn't for the care bull who we want be here today. to get to the 10 o 2 from our village you have to cross the 1100 kilometer long brooks right the highest mountains in the arctic circle. the more than 19000000 i cut arctic national wildlife refuge is the largest protected wilderness in the united states. this narrow strip where the refuge makes the sea is home to many of the arctics diverse wildlife spaces. this is the heart of the arctic national wildlife refuge one of the most pristine environments in the world and it's here that the trumpet ministration and the oil companies want to drill. this is where the caribbean have never been this was a big part of the cavern grounds of the porcupine carol heard what we're walking on right here i'm here with retired biologist and conservationist friend malla he's a caribou expert who spent more than 20 years studying this special place this is a shed player from an adult female caribou when you find out hers lying on the tundra your collar antlers you're in a cabin ground. it's unclear how much oil actually lies under the tundra and exploratory will drooled in the mid eighty's apparently delivered mega results but the oil companies won't release the data files now the trumpet ministration wants to sell off the drilling leases by the end of this year. in my opinion the russia has to sell lisas before there's another election. it's as simple as that. and they're trying to push it through while they have the votes and the power of the white house to do this right so it's a crime quite honestly that the. american people are being robbed. if the laces are approved this landscape could be crisscrossed with is strips roads pipelines and treatment plants. more the years working up here i feel. i feel the pull and. i feel that the land is speaking for that through us. i think that's happened. of a nation comes from deep concern. at school and yes and what is. your cost or disaster. if we knew it was a special surprise. it's a great loss. to all mankind. if. the only tell the refuge feeds home to the people. the majority of residency of support drilling for oil in the tank. for generations. the waters are a lot warmer than. we don't have. a role now it's really weird to see i. 56 year old. has gone most of her life. sick. patients. to control where. they have the right to. the community. where. like that. we'd like to. he's paid good thought yeah it's good. for you very. cold. own. tracks the polar bear is into the village and the locals run a 247 troll. they're smelling it and they want to get to it and there's no way to get there so you know right now they've got no ice to hunt seal so they're coming in to try and get whatever they can he feel sorry for that they. know where. i live with them all my life there are no cents for me they get my good food. i could make money out there for a half. and. there's not much money here in qatar because the oil industry is the mind souls of income helping fund the school and buy 6 services like pallet and sewerage. recently the oil companies paid for and i sell up to kate while might saif from the polar bears. you can see. that matthew rexford is president of the cat toby can he be at cooperation. with all of these are heavy metals and serious you know and all this heavy equipment it's tends to be more careful yes i think a very scary and then also a few days now of oh yes yes. we're regs but he's mattie's mom she's pregnant about the choices that my. the community are for their companies wanting to drill. when i 1st heard about it i do like. the. opportunity. what it can do very good i think it'll help it'll help. when the refuge was established the n.e.p. out of kaktovik what consulted. after generations of government interference murray is clear on who should make decisions about the land. god gave us this land to live life. for us not the government but the people that live here. why should they all give in when we live here we're doing fine everything's here everybody's getting involved in our problems we live here we make the rules not there you don't live here we do we shouldn't have to listen to them wouldn't not drilling for oil help protect your way of life. probably but you know saying do it anyway. it's going to happen base ace just going to happen. it's happening already. smartest we don't want it. and war in alaska one of the great sights of energy in the world and i didn't think it was a big deal and then one day a friend of mine who was in the opposite called is it true. that you have anwar in the bill i said i don't know who cares he said well you know reagan drive every single president tried and not one president was successful in getting at the bush years when everybody said you got to be kidding i love it now and after that we fought like hell together and work. creator we i feel for guidance today we're honest you guys in the right direction provide us the knowledge that we need to protect our home ones and protect that her complaint her hers and all the rules. make their way to the arctic national wildlife refuge which in later but i did demented takes the fun to washington d.c. . i'm always ois from my family and. trying to educate the world of what my elders told us they're the ones who lived and survived off these lands they're the ones who got knowledge from thousands of thousands and thousands of years of being hair of living where we are not only here to use our voice for our people but for all people for your children and your grandchildren we are here to speak for our animals because they can't tell us when they're sick they can't tell us when they're hungry and they can't tell us about the impact that they're dealing with with climate change. we should not have to trade our culture for oil and gas. the democrat held house voted to prevent drilling. while the administration is determined to push ahead the final isn't over yet. i think we're going to come together to stand up against this administration. i think or i see and i see a lot of people that never usually work together unite. and i have to hold on to that whole. board. person. china's new national security law has tightened beijing's grip on hong kong and stifled protests that rocked the city a year ago. with pro-democracy candidates now disqualified from running elections and activists fearing imprisonment or worse does this spell the end for one country 2 systems people in power investigates hong kong and. on a busy guy. venezuela's president pardons more than 100 opposition figures some in prison on exile his government calls it a move for reconsolidation. watch al-jazeera live from a headquarters and i'm 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