Projects & Activities

This project, lead by the UNEP Division of Environmental Policy Implementation (DEPI) and implemented by Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON) and the UNEP Key Polar Centre, is based on structured interviews with reindeer herders, hunters, fishers and gatherers in the Nenets and Kamchatka regions of Arctic Russia. Knowledge was documented on extreme weather events such as blizzards and heavy fogs, as well as floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. The project is linked with a project on indigenous knowledge in disaster management in Africa.