Word: yakutia
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INDIGENOUS CONTROL The trend of recognizing indigenous peoples' claims to ancestral land sometimes can help preserve wilderness. In the republic of Yakutia in Russian Siberia, some 270,000 sq. mi. of arctic tundra are now off limits to all extractive industries except for the traditional hunting and fishing done by the Yakut people. In Ecuador the Awa people, after winning recognition as a communal federation, were given legal title in 1985 to almost 300,000 acres of Choco forest. Ten years later, despite pressure from logging companies, the Awa signed an agreement with the WWF designating 42,000 acres...
...floes in the River Lena, which had overflowed its banks and flooded large areas of eastern Siberia. The aircraft used 80 bombs to break up the packed ice over an 80-km stretch of the river. Backed up floodwaters had inundated the town of Lensk, above, in the Yakutia region, where 400 houses were washed away and another 1,700 damaged. Nearly 30,000 people were evacuated...