subsistence hunting
Hunting for food
Subsistence hunting is hunting for food rather than sport or commerce.
The term typically describes indigenous or rural communities that depend on wild game as a primary protein source: Alaska Natives have legal protections for subsistence hunting.
It contrasts with recreational hunting and implies a traditional or necessity-based relationship with the land.
- treaty obligationsBinding international agreement requirements
- tundraFrigid treeless biome
- traditional territoryIndigenous people's historic lands
- caribouNorth American arctic deer
- food securityGuaranteed adequate nutrition access
ancestral practices · indigenous knowledge · sustainable use · nutritional needs · self-sufficiency · trapping · biodiversity · foraging · conservation laws · generational wisdom · tracking · stalking · snares · ecosystem balance · community rituals · moose · bush meat · rifle
- AlaskaFairbanks, Juneau, Denali, Sitka, Kodiak
- Alaska Bushbush pilots, bush planes, remote villages, native villages, off-grid living
- Arctic industriesoil drilling, oil extraction, gas extraction, arctic drilling, offshore drilling
- Canadian ArcticNunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Baffin Island, Yellowknife
- subsistencefood, hunger, starvation, basic needs, sustenance
- wildlife usesport fishing, game management, wildlife trade, sustainable harvest, game reserves
subsistence huntingsport hunting
Killing animals recreationally
trophy hunting · recreational hunting · big game hunting · thrill killing · fox hunting
subsistence huntingcommercial whaling
Business of catching cetaceans
commercial fishing · factory farming · industrial agriculture · agribusiness
subsistence huntinggrocery shopping
industrial agriculture · factory farming · agricultural society