Reweaving the Legal Fabric: Full Transcript
This is the full transcript for the audio recording of "Reweaving the Legal Fabric: Indigenous Governance and Conservation Law in Canada."
Indigenous Women’s Leadership Series: A Celebration of Love and Healing
The Indigenous Women’s Leadership Series is a series of four dialogues that are part of the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership’s Virtual Campfire Series, and designed and hosted in partnership with the Indigenous Leadership Initiative and the IISAAK OLAM Foundation.
Cultural Keystone Species and Places: Bringing Indigenous worldviews and value systems into species at risk conservation management
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.
Input by the Conservation Through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP) into Parks Canada’s Horizon Scan
This report identifies recommended objectives that Parks Canada should incorporate into their research agenda.
Pacific IPCA Innovation Centre: Anchoring a New Movement of Indigenous-led Conservation
This blog post introduces IPCA Innovation Centres—regional, Indigenous-led learning hubs that support the growth of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) by weaving together cultural revitalization, land-based education, and diverse knowledge systems.
“Take your maps and go!” From colonialism to consent in conservation”
This blog post tells the story of how the Łutsël K’e Dene First Nation turned a top-down federal park proposal into a groundbreaking Indigenous-led conservation success, showing how Indigenous rights, laws, and leadership are transforming conservation in Canada today.
Indigenous-led Natural Climate Solutions: A Promising Path Forward
This blog post explains how Indigenous-led conservation and nature-based climate solutions can help fight climate change and protect biodiversity—while also advancing Indigenous rights, leadership, and economic self-determination.
Little Things that Matter in Decolonization and Anti-oppression Struggles: Lessons from the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute summer school for emerging scholars
This blog post shares how a PhD student’s journey into Indigenous-led conservation was deepened by a summer intensive on ethical, community-engaged research—highlighting the power of knowledge mobilization, anti-oppression, and decolonization in academic and social change.
Lighting a ‘good fire’: Indigenous fire knowledge and reconciliation in protected areas
This blog post discusses how Indigenous fire practices, long suppressed by colonial fire management, are being recognized as vital for ecological health, biodiversity, and reconciliation in Canada’s evolving approach to wildfire and land stewardship.
Rights-based approaches in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
This blog post highlights the contributions of Indigenous leadership to developing a post-2020 biodiversity framework focused on rights, governance, and conservation.