Surviving with Animals

Life in regions with extreme natural conditions often depends on well-adapted animals, which may be key to the cultural heritage of native peoples. For nomads in Siberia, it depends on herding reindeer which is most risky in the annual migrations between summer and winter pastures. In Australia, training as risky helicopter pilot is a desirable career for white farm-boys to drive the herds on dry plains, but also combined whit the traditional knowledge for Aboriginal hunter tribes in northern wetlands used also for conservation of their fearsome predator-prey, collecting eggs from the sunken nests of the salty, the world's largest crocodile,. In Vanuatu, islanders unable to breed much meat depend essentially on fishing, but when a son is trained by his father in ancient techniques, even deep diving for lobster, the devastating effect of over-fishing -also by licensed foreign industrial ships- and climate change become painfully obvious.