The northeast coast of the Yukon is now under Inuvialuit stewardship. The Aullaviat/Anguniarvik Traditional Conservation Area is being made official with a signing in Aklavik, N.W.

T., Wednesday afternoon. The region is traditionally used by the Inuvialuit people who live in Aklavik and Inuvik to hunt caribou.

A management plan is being developed between the Inuvialuit, territorial and federal governments. The area is named Aullaviat/Anguniarvik, Inuvialuktun for "where wildlife and people travel, a place to hunt." It covers more than 850,000 hectares of land — 8,500 square kilometres, or roughly 1.

8 per cent of the Yukon. The Porcupine caribou herd lives in the area, as well as muskox, moose, grizzly and polar bears and migratory birds and fish. The signing in Aklavik Wednesday is meant to showcase the land and culture to visitors and to those who tune into the livestream by the Inuvialuit Communications Society.

Porcupine caribou migrate past the Blow River on their way to their summer grounds. (Peter Mather/Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope)) A group tour is planned for Thursday morning to bring people out to a cabin near the community. "This is significant because we have worked on this for many years," said William Storr, who sits on the working group and is the president of the Aklavik Hunters and Trappers Committee.

"We did it with a lot of support from co-management partners and Inuvialuit." Storr said the area is popular with people from Aklavik. "Th.