Aidan Sheppard

Aidan Sheppard is a Ph.D. student in Conservation Biology at the University of Alberta living in Whitehorse, Yukon and hosted by Yukon University in the Traditional Territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council. He is working in partnership with Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation and Wildlife Conservation Society Canada in Yukon South Beringia to identify and monitor climate change refugia for biocultural indicators such as Nähträ’/Wolverine and Wëdzey/Caribou using Two-Eyed Seeing as a guiding framework.

Keywords: Two-Eyed Seeing, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Climate Change Refugia, Biocultural Indicators, Indigenous-led Conservation, Climate Adaptation