World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

A proposed mine in Alaska threatens a rare population of seals

Alaska’s rare Iliamna Lake seals could be endangered by the Pebble Mine, a project that threatens their isolated freshwater ...
KTVZ

OSU researchers observe wolves hunting, killing sea otters, harbor seals on Alaska’s Katmai coast

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Firsthand observations of a wolf hunting and killing a harbor seal and a group of wolves hunting and consuming a sea otter on Alaska’s Katmai coast have led scientists to ...
New Haven Register

Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up to conserve seals and an ancestral way of life at Yakutat, Alaska

(THE CONVERSATION) Five hundred years ago, in a mountain-rimmed ocean fjord in southeast Alaska, Tlingit hunters armed with bone-tipped harpoons eased their canoes through chunks of floating ice, ...
LAist

In some Alaska villages, hunting and fishing season starts with a 'throwing party'

Traditionally, throughout many Indigenous coastal communities in Western Alaska, when a young family member hunts their first seal of the season, their family hosts a party to distribute that fresh ...
Courthouse News Service

Alaska loses challenge to delist Arctic ringed seals

A ringed seal (Pusa hispida) peaks its head above water in the Laptev Sea near Bolshoy Begichev Island, Russia. ( Кирилл Уютнов/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — Conservation protections ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

In some Alaska villages, hunting and fishing season starts with a 'throwing party'

Also known as “seal parties,” the tradition brings women together to mark first catches and — more recently — other achievements as well. In some Alaska villages, hunting and fishing season starts ...