Arctic peoples seek U.N. help to slow warming
02 Dec 2005 14:53:32 GMTSource: Reuters
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
MONTREAL, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Alarmed by a rapid thaw of Arctic ice, indigenous peoples want a 189-nation conference in Canada to step up protection of their hunting cultures.
This year, a hummingbird was spotted on an Alaskan island for the first time in memory. New insect-borne parasites killed 70 reindeer in Norway and seals native to California coasts were seen in the far north Pacific.
"Climate change is threatening our way of life," indigenous peoples from Russia, Scandinavia, Greenland, Canada and Alaska said in a draft petition to the U.N. conference in Montreal, which is seeking ways to curb rising temperatures.
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