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Persistent Toxic Substances, Food Security and Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North
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Persistent Toxic Substances, Food Security and Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North
A joint project established by RAIPON (Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and Far-East of the Russian Federation), AMAP (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme), and GEF (the Global Environmental Facility).
The AMAP Assessments have documented how persistent toxic substances (PTS) have a tendency to be transported to, and accumulate in the Arctic region. They also describe how Arctic ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to exposure to PTS, and why certain Arctic indigenous communities in Greenland and Canada have some of the highest exposures to PTS of any populations on Earth. A number of factors, among which the cold Arctic climate, lipid-rich food chains, and lifestyle of indigenous peoples, in particular their reliance on traditional foods, all play an important role.
Preliminary studies in the Russian Arctic upto 1998 showed that environmental levels of PTS can be significantly elevated, however the data were sparse and many areas of the Russian Arctic were not covered in these studies. At the same time, as a result of economic changes in Russia, consumption of traditional food by indigenous peoples in the Russian Arctic increased. For these reasons, the Arctic Indigenous Peoples Organisations (Permanent Participants of the Arctic Council), in collaboration with the AMAP Secretariat, initiated, with financial support of the Global Invironmental Facility (GEF), the project Persistent Toxic Substances (PTS), Food Security and Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North.
Further information: http://www.amap.no/Resources/PTS_project.htm#PTSrelease
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