App helps Inuit hunters navigate thinning sea ice in Canadian Arctic
by Leyland Cecco in Toronto from on (#4W8HT)
- Siku app aims draw on traditional knowledge
- 'We copying what our parents used to do, but in modern ways'
A new mobile phone app has been devised to help Inuit hunters in northern Canada avoid an increasingly dangerous effect of climate change: unpredictable sea ice.
Developed under the guidance of the Arctic Eider Society, the app aims to draw on the catalogue of traditional knowledge that has helped the Inuit thrive in an unforgiving region.
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