2009) and play an essential role in people's physical and emotional health   . Wild foods consumed in the Arctic and northern regions include animals and a wide variety of plant foods . Wild foods contribute most of important nutrients in the diets of northern and Arctic people . However, the use of traditional wild foods is declining across the region, lowering diet quality . Indigenous communities in the Arctic perceive climate change related impacts on traditional wild foods, and availability and access to wild foods are forecast to continue to decline . Some communities hold positive views of the new opportunities a warmer climate will bring, seeing them as a favourable trade-off relative to the loss of some forms of subsistence hunting . Climate change is causing ecological changes that impact Arctic wild food availability and abundance in many different ways, including changes to breeding success, migration patterns and food webs .
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