Arctic fishers and Polar Bears all at risk as ice melts
Climate change is taking its toll on Greenland as global warming is happening twice a fast as elsewhere.
Fishers like Johannes Heilmann, a 60 year old trawlerman from Nuuk fjord are helpless as the freezing waters with large chunks of ice are too difficult to navigate in their small fishing boats, making fishing near impossible and at the same time they can no longer take their dogsleds out to the edge of the ice floes to fish because the ice isn’t thick enough to carry the weight.
This is the same problem the Polar Bears are facing and they are increasingly visiting villages looking for food. Some sled dogs have starved to death, since the fishers can’t provide them with the seals and fish they need to eat. It is difficult for the villagers to travel for supplies without either safe boating or sleds.
Polar bears that roam the ice also have an increasingly difficult time finding food, especially seals, as the ice floes melt. As a result they end up approaching villages in search of nourishment, presenting a danger to the locals and themselves.
In the south on Greenland the weather is becoming warm enough to grow a variety of vegetables.
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