Hunting in the Arctic is the "prerogative" of the Eskimos. They have been hunting for generations, and in northern Greenland they hunt seals at the turn of winter and summer, bird hunting and fishing from June to August, and reindeer hunting in September. And in the northern tip of Alaska, the year-round hunting of seals, and at the turn of winter and summer to hunt reindeer, April and May whaling, in addition to this, the Eskimos will also hunt polar bears, which is their tradition, eat raw polar bear meat, and then sell polar bear fur to fur dealers, a complete polar bear fur can be sold for more than tens of thousands of dollars, is a lot of income.

In the summer, Eskimo hunters come to the seal-frequented waters in search of prey in single kayaks with seal forks or pikes, nets, ropes and other tools. Hunters paddled silently, searching the surface of the sea. Eskimo hunters have developed a good eye from an early age and can see seals frolicking from a distance of 100-200 meters. Once the prey is spotted, the hunter approaches the target quickly and quietly. When they got closer, the hunter quickly picked up the harpoon and threw it at the seal. Be quick and accurate, or the seal will dive into the water and flee in an instant. Seals that have been forked will also dive into the water and even tow the boat over.

Because seals can swim as fast as usual, even with a boat towed behind, hunters must quickly drag the seals with their nets until they are exhausted at their worst. At this point, the hunter approaches the prey, kills it, and tethers it to the side of the boat. Then take a thorough look at the ship's facilities and move on to the search for the next prey. If you're lucky, a hunter can catch two or three seals a day. Those who are unlucky will have to go home empty-handed.

In winter, the sea is frozen. The Eskimos took another approach to seal hunting. Seals are mammals that live in the sea but breathe by their lungs, so they must constantly float to the surface to breathe air before diving into the water. Seals can stay underwater for 7-9 minutes per inhalation and up to 20 minutes or so. If this time is exceeded, they will suffocate to death. Because the Arctic freezes in winter, seals can't find a place to breathe under the ice, so they dig a hole in the ice from the bottom up. as a breathing hole. The Eskimos hunted seals by looking for their breathing holes.

In the Canadian Arctic, the sea freezes for months during the winter. This period was a difficult time when the Eskimos had the least source of food. The Kuphuskies here have a very good way of finding seals. They mobilized the entire village to look for the seals' breathing holes on the ice a few kilometres from the coast. After finding a batch of breathing holes in a considerable area, several hunters set off at the same time, waiting for one person at each one. This way, if the seal is scared away in one of the breathing holes. It is necessary to go to the other breathing hole to inhale. Defend every breathing hole in an area. Seals can't escape the net. Take this approach. There is always one or two hunters who catch at least one seal a day. After a few weeks, all the seals in the vicinity of the area disappeared and the villagers moved to hunt elsewhere.

Eskimos also use dragnets to catch seals. After finding the seal's breathing hole. They made an ice hole two meters on each side of the breathing hole, and laid a net 4 meters long and 1 meter wide in the water between the two holes. The ends of the net are pulled out of the ice with ropes and tied to the ice blocks stacked next to them when the ice is opened. At the lower end of the net, stones are placed every half a meter to keep the net vertical. The upper end of the net should be kept at a distance from the ice surface so that the net does not freeze on the bottom surface of the ice. Catching seals in this way is based on the same principle as fishing with sticky nets. Eskimo hunters usually cut the ice for two or three days after the net is lowered to collect their prey.

When the spring sun begins to shine on this land after long cold nights, and the days become longer and longer, the golden season for seal hunting has arrived. Seals crawl under the ice to bask in the sun, lying next to their breathing holes, hiding behind shaved ice ballast. Sun-basking seals are very alert to their surroundings and jump into the water as soon as they hear movement. When the seals are basking in the sun, they raise their heads every once in a while, look around to see if there is any danger, and if they are safe, they lower their heads again to enjoy the sun.

In this case, the hunter can only slowly approach the seal little by little. When approaching a seal, the hunter usually crawls on the ice, and when the seal raises its head, it lies motionless and dresses up as a sleeping seal. Or simply lie on the ice and look around, imitating the seal's movements. Luckily, seals don't have very good eyesight, and it's hard to tell the real from the fake. Since there are few obstacles on the ice and it is difficult to conceal, hunters sometimes use white canvas to make a barrier-like barrier to cover themselves like a shield. While the seals are asleep, the hunter quickly runs forward, and when the seal looks up, the hunter immediately lies down on the spot, like a pile of ice and snow.

When the Eskimos went out hunting, they often built snow huts, first, they took strong old snow, compacted snow and cut it into snow bricks in the city, and then used snow bricks to build a hemispherical snow hut, sealed the gaps between the bricks with snow, lit a fire in the room, melted the surface slightly, and sealed the house. Fur is hung on the four walls, and even the roof is covered with seal fur to keep warm. The igloo is half below ground, the door is half underground, and there is an arched windshield wall made of snow bricks in front of the door. Some igloos also have small windows, and the sun-dried intestines of various sea beasts are used as window paper, which can transmit light. Because they believe that sunlight is sacred, their houses are generally facing the sun.

This is the way of life of the Eskimos, under the difficult environment, so that they have developed a good skill, can be called the world's most outstanding hunter nation, but due to global warming, the living environment of polar bears, reindeer, seals is becoming increasingly bad, especially polar bears, are already endangered creatures, so to change the living conditions of polar bears, in fact, it is useless to promote the so-called protection of wild animals with the Eskimos, not to mention that there is a problem with communication, Even if it is translated by Noah, it is difficult to express the meaning clearly, and if you don't do it, you will be expelled by the Eskimos.

So instead of changing the hunting traditions of these 34,000 Eskimos, it would be better to find another place for them to live, Canada is so sparsely populated that it is possible to build an Eskimo town, or spread out in a national park, where there is not only one national park, but many famous national parks, such as Banje National Park, which should be able to carry so many people.

Hunters moved to some parts of the south, so seals and polar bears would have no natural predators, at least to ease the conflict between humans and animals.

Of course, this idea was only the benefit that Li Cheng thought of after listening to Noah's words, but to do the relocation of 34,000 people, such a large workload, it is difficult to rely on the two of them alone, so Noah said to do his best and negotiate with the Eskimo tribe he was familiar with.

Everyone wanted to have a good life in relief, and the Eskimos were the same, and as an Inuit, Noah didn't want such a people to continue to survive in such a bad situation.

"So what do you want to start with?" Li Cheng had a lot of pictures in his mind, talking about this topic with Noah, and he also wanted to see how the traditional Eskimos lived in the Arctic Circle.

After thinking about it, Noah said: "I will start with the Eskimo children, according to my understanding, the Eskimos within the Arctic Circle belong to the Canadian authorities to abandon a part of the people, that is, they are not managed so much, let them fend for themselves, although many animal protection organizations have criticized the hunting behavior of the Eskimos, but the Canadian authorities have not taken any action, regardless of the practice, so that the Eskimo children are at the bottom in all aspects of education and life, As a result, there are a lot of problems with these children. ”

The problems he mentioned, that is, learning badly, falling into the red dust, or taking drugs, violent conflicts, etc., make these Eskimos unable to obtain the social status and educational resources they deserve, and if they continue to develop like this, these Eskimos will sooner or later perish, so they have to take some action.

"This matter is a lot of work, if it is just the two of us, we may only be able to deal with about 100-200 tribes, so I think we should contact some public welfare organizations and institutions, or find the Canadian authorities."

"Well, I think international organizations like animal protection organizations and environmental protection organizations would be happy to see the Eskimos relocate from the Arctic Circle." Noah felt that Li Cheng was right, the strength of one person is still too limited, if you unite these organizations, you can at least get human support, if there are hundreds of volunteers, then through the international propaganda platform, get some help and attention, then these Eskimos can find a new home.

The Arctic Circle is still too dangerous, it is a miracle that humans survive here, and it is urgent to improve the living conditions of Eskimos in order to stop killing endangered species such as seals and polar bears.

The contradiction between animals and humans is also reflected in the aspect of survival, so it is impossible to blame the Eskimos, if they have a good environment, how can they risk great danger to kill highly dangerous animals such as whales and polar bears? Isn't that full of food and support?

But if you harm such an animal and hunt whales for the sake of profit, then needless to say, this is for personal interests and the interests of the people of the world, and you will definitely be blamed and spurned.

"Then when I go to the Arctic Circle, I think I should first confirm this aspect, and leave this aspect to me, first contact and find out the attitude of these organizations through telephone and Internet." Li Cheng nodded, and immediately went to the castle, Li Cheng's exclusive study, where there is a computer, just to check the Internet for animal protection organizations, environmental protection organizations, phone numbers, emails, etc. (To be continued......)