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MPA Network: Network Action Plan

2023-08-03T15:14:19-04:00Categories: IPCA Planning and Establishment, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

This webpage provides an overview of the Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Northern Shelf Bioregion which extends from the top of Vancouver Island (Quadra Island / Bute Inlet) and reaches north to the Canada-Alaska border.

Video: Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation Marine Protected Area

2023-08-03T15:14:01-04:00Categories: IPCA Planning and Establishment, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This video from CNN provides a brief overview of Gitdisdzu Lugyeks (Kitasu Bay) Marine Protected Area (MPA) declared by the Kitasoo Xai'xais Nation (British Columbia).

‘We are inseparable from our land’: Gitxsan Nation house group declares 170,000 hectares of territory protected

2023-08-03T15:13:42-04:00Categories: IPCA Planning and Establishment, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This article from the Narwhal reports on the declaration of a new Indigenous Protected Area by the Gitxsan Nation house group in the upper Skeena River watershed in northwest British Columbia.

News Release: Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation Declares New Gitdisdzu Lugyeks (Kitasu Bay) Marine Protected Area On Great Bear Coast

2023-08-03T15:13:22-04:00Categories: IPCA Planning and Establishment, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This news release from the Kitasoo Xai'xais Nation announces the New Gitdisdzu Lugyeks (Kitasu Bay) Marine Protected Area on the Great Bear Coast (British Columbia).

Landmark Agreement Appoints Coastal Guardian Watchmen with Provincial Authority

2023-08-03T15:13:06-04:00Categories: Governance and decision-making, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

This media story from Coastal First Nations covers the landmark agreement between the province of BC and First Nations to appoint Coastal Guardian Watchmen with provincial authority.

Indigenous Laws in the Context of Conservation

2023-08-03T15:12:52-04:00Categories: Laws and Legal Systems, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This report examines how IPCAs can offer pathways to bring together Indigenous and Crown legal systems. It looks at SGaan Kinghlas-Bowie Seamount Marine Protected Area in Haida Gwaii and Thaidene Nëné in Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation territory as two contemporary examples of how this can occur.

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