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Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up to conserve seals and an ancestral way of life at Yakutat

Five hundred years ago, in a mountain-rimmed ocean fjord in southeast Alaska, Tlingit hunters armed with bone-tipped harpoons eased their canoes through chunks of floating ice, stalking seals near Sít Tlein (Hubbard) glacier. They must have glanced nervously up at the glacier’s looming, fractured face, aware that cascades of ice could thunder down and imperil the boats – and their lives. As they drew near, they would have asked the seals to give themselves as food for the people and talked to the spirit of Sít Tlein to release the animals from his care.

Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up to conserve seals and an ancestral way of life at Yakutat, Alaska

Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up to conserve seals and an ancestral way of life in Yakutat

The community faces a crisis the decline of the Gulf of Alaska seals due to commercial hunting and the failure of the animals to recover because of warming ocean waters.

Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up to conserve seals and an ancestral way of life at Yakutat, Alaska - Newstalk 750

Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up to conserve seals and an ancestral way of life at Yakutat, Alaska