Iqaluktutiaq Voices: Local Perspectives about the Importance of Muskoxen, Contemporary and Traditional Use and Practices + Supplementary Appendices S1–S5 (See Article Tools)
Understanding human-wildlife relationships and interactions is crucial to implementing policies and practices related to wildlife and public health that are locally relevant and adapted to local communities and needs. With the goal of informing a community-based participatory muskox health surveilla...
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crarcticinstna:10.14430/arctic4697 2024-09-15T17:49:47+00:00 Iqaluktutiaq Voices: Local Perspectives about the Importance of Muskoxen, Contemporary and Traditional Use and Practices + Supplementary Appendices S1–S5 (See Article Tools) Tomaselli, Matilde Gerlach, S. Craig Kutz, Susan J. Checkley, Sylvia L. Iqaluktutiaq, The Community of 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.14430/arctic4697 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/download/67735/51631 unknown The Arctic Institute of North America http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ARCTIC volume 71, issue 1 ISSN 1923-1245 0004-0843 journal-article 2018 crarcticinstna https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4697 2024-08-27T04:00:27Z Understanding human-wildlife relationships and interactions is crucial to implementing policies and practices related to wildlife and public health that are locally relevant and adapted to local communities and needs. With the goal of informing a community-based participatory muskox health surveillance system in the community of Iqaluktutiaq (Cambridge Bay) on Victoria Island, Nunavut, Canada, we explored the importance of muskoxen for community residents, their relevance for local food security, and the relationships and interactions between Iqaluktutiamiut and muskoxen. We investigated these themes through individual interviews of 30 community members identified as muskox experts by local organizations. Results were finalized and refined with 26 interviewees in feedback sessions. For Iqaluktutiaq residents, muskoxen have nutritional, economic, sociocultural, and environmental importance. The decline of muskoxen documented locally has a multidimensional impact on the community, with negative effects on all the domains explored, from food security to the integrity of the cultural system. Descriptions of subsistence and commercial harvesting and butchering practices are an asset for the successful implementation of participatory muskox health surveillance activities (e.g., hunter-based sampling), as well as for interpretation of derived data (e.g., local knowledge on muskox diseases). Knowledge of specific harvesting practices that might increase exposure to zoonotic agents is also relevant for designing targeted strategies to mitigate public health risks. This research underlines how careful examination of the human-wildlife context through local perspectives can benefit wildlife health surveillance, public health, and wildlife co-management outcomes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Cambridge Bay muskox Nunavut Victoria Island victoria island Arctic Institute of North America ARCTIC 71 1 |
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Understanding human-wildlife relationships and interactions is crucial to implementing policies and practices related to wildlife and public health that are locally relevant and adapted to local communities and needs. With the goal of informing a community-based participatory muskox health surveillance system in the community of Iqaluktutiaq (Cambridge Bay) on Victoria Island, Nunavut, Canada, we explored the importance of muskoxen for community residents, their relevance for local food security, and the relationships and interactions between Iqaluktutiamiut and muskoxen. We investigated these themes through individual interviews of 30 community members identified as muskox experts by local organizations. Results were finalized and refined with 26 interviewees in feedback sessions. For Iqaluktutiaq residents, muskoxen have nutritional, economic, sociocultural, and environmental importance. The decline of muskoxen documented locally has a multidimensional impact on the community, with negative effects on all the domains explored, from food security to the integrity of the cultural system. Descriptions of subsistence and commercial harvesting and butchering practices are an asset for the successful implementation of participatory muskox health surveillance activities (e.g., hunter-based sampling), as well as for interpretation of derived data (e.g., local knowledge on muskox diseases). Knowledge of specific harvesting practices that might increase exposure to zoonotic agents is also relevant for designing targeted strategies to mitigate public health risks. This research underlines how careful examination of the human-wildlife context through local perspectives can benefit wildlife health surveillance, public health, and wildlife co-management outcomes. |
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Tomaselli, Matilde Gerlach, S. Craig Kutz, Susan J. Checkley, Sylvia L. Iqaluktutiaq, The Community of |
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Tomaselli, Matilde Gerlach, S. Craig Kutz, Susan J. Checkley, Sylvia L. Iqaluktutiaq, The Community of Iqaluktutiaq Voices: Local Perspectives about the Importance of Muskoxen, Contemporary and Traditional Use and Practices + Supplementary Appendices S1–S5 (See Article Tools) |
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Tomaselli, Matilde Gerlach, S. Craig Kutz, Susan J. Checkley, Sylvia L. Iqaluktutiaq, The Community of |
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Iqaluktutiaq Voices: Local Perspectives about the Importance of Muskoxen, Contemporary and Traditional Use and Practices + Supplementary Appendices S1–S5 (See Article Tools) |
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Iqaluktutiaq Voices: Local Perspectives about the Importance of Muskoxen, Contemporary and Traditional Use and Practices + Supplementary Appendices S1–S5 (See Article Tools) |
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Iqaluktutiaq Voices: Local Perspectives about the Importance of Muskoxen, Contemporary and Traditional Use and Practices + Supplementary Appendices S1–S5 (See Article Tools) |
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Iqaluktutiaq Voices: Local Perspectives about the Importance of Muskoxen, Contemporary and Traditional Use and Practices + Supplementary Appendices S1–S5 (See Article Tools) |
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Iqaluktutiaq Voices: Local Perspectives about the Importance of Muskoxen, Contemporary and Traditional Use and Practices + Supplementary Appendices S1–S5 (See Article Tools) |
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iqaluktutiaq voices: local perspectives about the importance of muskoxen, contemporary and traditional use and practices + supplementary appendices s1–s5 (see article tools) |
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Arctic Cambridge Bay muskox Nunavut Victoria Island victoria island |
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Arctic Cambridge Bay muskox Nunavut Victoria Island victoria island |
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