This image was taken during an International League of Conservation Photographers’ Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. The refuge’s coastal plain — a safe, pristine and protected ecosystem to which tens of thousands of caribou migrate to give birth every spring, had been opened up to oil and gas developments through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act which the U.S. Congress passed in 2017. Reliant on porcupine caribou for physical, cultural and spiritual sustenance, the Gwich'in people are at the forefront of the struggle to preserve the caribou's calving grounds on the Arctic Refuge's coastal plain.