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Shadows of change -Uummannaq ,Greenlland -10/21 /09 Stanley Greene (C)NOOR Images- 2009 ..Abandoned dog sleds - Uummannaq ..Climate change is forcing hunters Who are called " Kings of the Ice " in Uummannaq to become fishermen , to ask a hunter to become a fishermen is very low thing to ask of him , because he is a hunter and polar bear , whale ,seal meat is what he eats , fishing is for Women and children .the good ice is disappearing , it is okay for boats , but not dog sleds , so now hunters are killing their dogs because there are too many in Uummannaq over 6,000 dogs and not enough to feed them .Once one piece of the hunters life disappears , then it all starts to melt away ,just like the ice that is going away , and soon the hunters of Uummannaq may disappear as well , with out good ice they cannot survive and with out ice they are no longer " Kings of the Ice " and then they are nothing at all . (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Stanley Greene)