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Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy
In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy.
Photo: Radio-Canada / Regard sur l'Arctique / Eye on the Arctic / Eilis Quinn
In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy.
It’s -31C out on the undulating terrain of the Boothia Peninsula, but Jimmy Ullikatalik, manager of the Taloyoak Umarulirijigut Association, the local hunters and trappers group, makes the landscape’s voids of ice and snow come alive. Every now and then, he stops his snowmobile to point out everything from animal migration routes, to hunting cabins, to the remarkable, a perched block rock formation that seems to defy gravity and really has to be seen to be believed.
