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The coincidence at the end of the first millennium of remnant indigenous territories and high biodiversity values, the globalising market and the growing recognition of resource rights for traditional peoples requires special attention as a problem in biodiversity maintenance. New threats to indigenous life-ways in the era of the globalising market have been brought about by the increasing commodification of features of the natural world, instances of which are absolutely vital to the survival of ancient societies directly dependent on the state of their natural environment. For example, in June 1978, Inupiat leader Eben Hobson, then founding Chairman of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference and spokesperson for the Alaska Whaling Commission, appealed to the London Press Corps for understanding and support in the legal recognition of Inuit rights (Hobson 1978): “We Inuit are hunters. There aren’t many subsistence hunting societies left in the world, but our Inuit Circumpolar community is one of them”.
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Langton, M. (2002). The ‘Wild’, the Market and the Native: Indigenous Issues in Wildlife Utilisation and Management. In: Bowler, I.R., Bryant, C.R., Cocklin, C. (eds) The Sustainability of Rural Systems. The GeoJournal Library, vol 66. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3471-4_4
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