The Refuge Revealed (Rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 29 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The 40-year fight over drilling for oil in one of the world’s wildest places, Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, is coming to a head. The Department of the Interior has just removed the final hurdle to allow oil industry bids for the right to drill in the refuge. Opponents say climate change is warming the Arctic twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and the plants, animals and people living there are struggling to adapt.

In this episode, we examine the future of the refuge for the people who live there. It’s a collaboration with the award-winning podcast Threshold, which was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

This episode originally was released March 7, 2020.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:04.4	I'm Al Etsin.
0:06.4	We're starting this week's show on a boat near the top of the world.
0:10.4	Reporter Amy Martin, the podcast threshold, is about to visit a part of the United States
0:15.5	has been fought over for decades. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and War.
0:21.0	Ready to go?
0:21.7	Woo!
0:22.5	You want to come inside?
0:24.5	The captain of the boat is Vibion Ishana Ratan.
0:28.0	Vibion's in his early 20s and lives in the village of Cocktovic.
0:32.8	If you look at a map of Alaska, it's way up in the northeast on a small barrier island.
0:38.8	Vibion's taking Amy and her colleague Nick Mott over to the mainland.
0:43.1	It's a cloudy day and as they motor along, the edge of the North American continent
0:48.2	slowly emerges from the mist.
0:50.0	What you see is a gray ocean, a lion of green and black that is the land,
0:59.7	and above that big gray and that's the sky.
1:04.2	The refuge is almost 10 times the size of Yellowstone National Park,
1:08.8	with no roads, no hotels, no souvenir shops, just wilderness.
1:13.7	It's the largest wildlife refuge in the country.
1:16.7	Home to wolves, Arctic foxes, wolf arenes, Canada links, and all three types of North American
1:22.5	bears. And this northern part of it is known as the coastal plain.
1:26.6	It's where tens of thousands of caribou nurture their newborn calves.
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