Caribou Commons Touches The Heart
Caribou Commons is an international effort to protect the calving grounds of the Porcupine Caribou Herd, which are located in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
This area is threatened by the prospect of industrial oil and gas development, and its future is now being debated in the U.S. Congress. Congress is expected to vote again soon on whether to allow oil drilling in the Refuge.
Through Caribou Commons, northern artists and conservationists are working in cooperation with members of the Gwich*in First Nation to educate and inspire others to join in the growing effort to prevent harmful industrial development in the Arctic Refuge.
Caribou Commons is an emotionally moving, multi-sensory presentation that includes original music, slides, wilderness sounds and voices of aboriginal people. A representative of the Gwich'in from Alaska will participate in the program along with Caribou Commons presenter Peter Mather of Whitehorse.
Caribou Commons brings the land and animals alive, makes people feel like they are actually in the Refuge, and articulates eloquently what would be lost if oil development occurs there. Caribou Commons began in 1998 with a 1,250-kilometer wilderness journey through northern Alaska and the Yukon by a group of Canadian musicians and artists, including internationally renowned musician Matthew Lien and photographer Ken Madsen.
Caribou Commons is an international effort to protect the calving grounds of the Porcupine Caribou Herd, which are located in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
This area is threatened by the prospect of industrial oil and gas development, and its future is now being debated in the U.S. Congress. Congress is expected to vote again soon on whether to allow oil drilling in the Refuge.
Through Caribou Commons, northern artists and conservationists are working in cooperation with members of the Gwich*in First Nation to educate and inspire others to join in the growing effort to prevent harmful industrial development in the Arctic Refuge.
Caribou Commons is an emotionally moving, multi-sensory presentation that includes original music, slides, wilderness sounds and voices of aboriginal people. A representative of the Gwich'in from Alaska will participate in the program along with Caribou Commons presenter Peter Mather of Whitehorse.
Caribou Commons brings the land and animals alive, makes people feel like they are actually in the Refuge, and articulates eloquently what would be lost if oil development occurs there. Caribou Commons began in 1998 with a 1,250-kilometer wilderness journey through northern Alaska and the Yukon by a group of Canadian musicians and artists, including internationally renowned musician Matthew Lien and photographer Ken Madsen.