As In Alaska, Warming Rapidly Altering Terrain, Food, Wildlife Patterns In Siberia - AFP

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In Kanchalan, some 70 kilometres (45 miles) northwest of the regional capital Anadyr, teachers at the local school blamed global warming for cracks that have appeared in the building due to melting of the permafrost below ground.

And while Makhushkin worries about his reindeer, receding ice is also proving troublesome for sea mammal hunters.

In coastal districts members of the Chukchi ethnic group are struggling to adapt as whales head for cooler waters even further north, says Eduard Zdor, secretary of Chukotka's Association of Traditional Marine Mammal Hunters.

Also along the coast there is growing conflict between people and polar bears. The bears have been forced ashore as their normal habitat, the polar ice sheets, now recedes as much as 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) north of Chukotka in summer. In the last five years two people have been killed and another maimed by polar bears in Chukotka as the animals have taken to approaching villages, desperate for food, says Anatoly Kochnev, a fisheries researcher with the agriculture ministry.

"Whereas before people wanted to feed them, tolerated them and considered them beautiful, now they are seen as enemies and are getting killed more and more," he said.

"We can't maintain nature in absolutely the same state but we need to reduce our influence on the animal world, not help them to die," he said.

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