User:Oceanflynn/Bob Weber (journalist)

Bob Weber (journalist) is a Canadian writer who focuses on Canada's northern regions.

The Gwich'in people and Porcupine caribou
Bobbi Jo Greenland Morgan, who is head of the Gwich’In Tribal Council, along with the Canadian government, the Yukon and Northwest territories and other First Nations, expressed concerns to the United States about the proposed lease sale in the calving grounds of a large cross-border [Porcupine caribou herd] to energy drilling, despite international agreements to protect it." In December, the United States "released a draft environmental impact study proposal for the lease sale with a public comment period until February 11, 2019. Environment Canada wrote in a letter to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Alaska office, that "Canada is concerned about the potential transboundary impacts of oil and gas exploration and development planned for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain."

Caribou is traditionally a major component of their diet. Many Gwichʼin people are dependent on the Porcupine caribou which herd calves on the coastal plain in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Gwichʼin people have been very active in protesting and lobbying against the possibility of oil drilling in ANWR, due to fears that oil drilling will deplete the population of the Porcupine Caribou herd.

Suicide among First Nations
"Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations released its suicide prevention strategy on Thursday".

First Nations relations
Gwich’In Tribal Council.