British Columbia

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.

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).

Incremental Treaty Agreement between the Province of British Columbia and Lyackson First Nation and Cowichan Tribes First Nation

2024-11-22T14:57:19-05:00Categories: Governance and decision-making, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

This is an incremental treaty agreement between the Quw’utsun Tribes, Lyackson First Nation, and the province of British Columbia for the return of 312 hectares of forest land, bought by the province from Mosaic Forest Management for $8.55 million.

First Nations of the North Pacific coast celebrate milestone for coastal conservation and community development

2024-10-25T11:24:31-04:00Categories: Financing and Indigenous- led Conservation Economies, Media Release, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This press release announces the completion of the Great Bear Sea Project Finance for Permanence (PFP) initiative, which has secured long-term marine conservation and community development funding.

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