Human Rights Watch: Canada Needs to Deliver to Stem Climate Change
January 12, 2021
January 12, 2021
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (TNSJou) -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release on Jan. 11:
Darius Elias remembers childhood summers spent out on the land in Old Crow Flats, northern Yukon wetlands, where members of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation spent months harvesting food each year. But few travel to Old Crow Flats these days, as climate change has transformed the land.
Today, dramatic permafrost thaw and drained lakes make it difficult and potentially dangerous . . .
Darius Elias remembers childhood summers spent out on the land in Old Crow Flats, northern Yukon wetlands, where members of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation spent months harvesting food each year. But few travel to Old Crow Flats these days, as climate change has transformed the land.
Today, dramatic permafrost thaw and drained lakes make it difficult and potentially dangerous . . .