Press conference with Arved Fuchs

The Arctic is melting and is being plundered – Indigenous people are suffering under the climate change and the exploitation of minerals

While the climate change is already massively threatening the indigenous peoples of the Arctic, many of the 400,000 native inhabitants are now on account of the run which is now beginning on the minerals of the Arctic facing the extinction of their way of life. The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) has reached this frightening conclusion in its 105-page human rights report "The Arctic is melting and is being plundered – Indigenous peoples are suffering under the climate change and the mining of minerals”, which the human rights organisation will be presenting in Hamburg on Thursday. Simultaneously with the press conference GfbV members will be drawing attention with protest campaigns in 37 German towns and cities to the dramatic position of the native inhabitants.

We invite you cordially to our press conference

(Café FEES, Holstenwall 24, 20355 Hamburg)

The press conference will be attended by:

Mr Arved Fuchs, polar expert

Ms Qiviog Kristine Kern Kreuzmann, Inuit film-maker

Ms Sofie Ulrich-Lynge, Inuit from Greenland

Ms Tjan Zaotschnaja, Itelman from Kamchatka (Siberia)

Mr Ulrich Delius, Society for Threatened Peoples

The representatives of the indigenous peoples will be reporting on the consequences of the climate change for their communities.

Note for photographers: in front of the Museum at 10.15 a.m. there will be the opportunity to photograph the indigenous representatives with a banner and large-scale pictures!