Biocultural Monitoring and Community-based Stewardship

Indigenous-led conservation: Pathways to recovery for the nearly extirpated Klinse-Za mountain caribou

2025-01-14T10:49:24-05:00Categories: Biocultural Monitoring and Community-based Stewardship, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

This article highlights how West Moberly and Saulteau First Nations successfully led the recovery of the Klinse-Za caribou after the population declined from 250 in the 1990s to 38 in 2013, impacting their treaty rights.

Back from the brink: New research shows Indigenous-led conservation forging a new recovery model for caribou in British Columbia

2025-01-14T10:44:59-05:00Categories: Biocultural Monitoring and Community-based Stewardship, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

This media release highlights the success of Indigenous-led conservation by West Moberly and Saulteau First Nations, nearly tripling the Klinse-Za caribou population from 38 in 2013 to 114 in 2022.

Bear hair and fish weirs: Meet the Indigenous people combining modern science with ancestral principles to protect the land

2025-01-14T10:24:56-05:00Categories: Biocultural Monitoring and Community-based Stewardship, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

This article highlights how the Heiltsuk Nation of British Columbia combines ancestral principles and modern science to protect salmon, bears, and ecosystems in their territory.

Cultural Keystone Species and Places: Bringing Indigenous worldviews and value systems into species at risk conservation management

2025-01-08T11:06:05-05:00Categories: Biocultural Monitoring and Community-based Stewardship, Featured Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

This blog series intends to share some reflections and learnings about Indigenous perspectives on species conservation, present frameworks that embody these perspectives, and discuss why Indigenous worldviews and approaches to “conservation” (a word that does not often translate directly to Indigenous languages) should be given equal space in Canadian policy. 

Estuary to Old Growth Gathering Report 2023

2024-11-22T15:19:24-05:00Categories: Biocultural Monitoring and Community-based Stewardship, IPCAs and Indigenous-led Conservation, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This is the summary report from the 2023 Estuary to Old Growth Gathering hosted by T’Sou-ke First Nation in partnership with the Westcoast IPCA Support Program (WISP).

Co-producing Sustainable Ocean Plans with Indigenous and traditional knowledge holders

2024-11-22T13:05:25-05:00Categories: Biocultural Monitoring and Community-based Stewardship, Relationships, Reconciliation, and Knowledge Systems, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

This Blue Paper brings together insights from Indigenous knowledge holders and researchers to promote regenerative, inclusive, and culturally respectful ocean planning processes. It stresses the importance of developing Sustainable Ocean Plans (SOPs) with Indigenous communities...

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