Monitoring

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. 

Tracking Change

2023-08-03T15:11:59-04:00Categories: Biocultural Monitoring and Community-based Stewardship, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

This links to the official website of Tracking Change - a project that funds research in the Mackenzie River basin, Lower Amazon, and Lower Mekong River Basins to empower subsistence fishers and Indigenous communities in managing freshwater ecosystems.

Tracking Change – Resources/Publications

2023-08-03T15:12:00-04:00Categories: Biocultural Monitoring and Community-based Stewardship, Resource, Stewardship and Guardians|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Tracking Change is a research initiative funded by the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of [...]

Indigenous Sentinels Network

2023-08-03T15:11:21-04:00Categories: Biocultural Monitoring and Community-based Stewardship, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This links to the Indigenous Sentinels Network - which aims "to provide remote, Indigenous communities with tools, training, networking and convening, coordination, and capacity for ecological, environmental, and climate monitoring."

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