By Kai Bruce
This blog entry is a reflection on my research thus far. I hope that it provides a glimpse into one aspect of the ongoing work of the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership.
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A joint statement from the CRP Leadership Circle
The Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership is pleased to see the recognition of Indigenous-led conservation in the Government of Canada’s Budget 2021. We strongly believe that supporting and strengthening Indigenous-led conservation and stewardship is the single most important strategy to achieving our collective commitment of conserving 25% of lands and waters by 2025.
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By Trish Nash, Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources
This blog provides a report on the Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources’ (UINR) efforts to establish an Indigenous and Protected Areas (IPCA). We hope that the blog can inform Indigenous-led conservation efforts across Canada, specifically around emerging IPCAs.
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By Robin Roth
The CRP is not a typical university-based research project. Research is done collaboratively and in service of Indigenous-led conservation and it is done by everyone; it is an activity we all participate in, regardless of whether we are based in a university, a conservation organization or in community.
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Shared by Elder Marilyn Capreol and Allison Bishop
This time of year is known as Ziinsibaakwadoke Giizis, or the Syrup Moon, when sap begins to flow from the trees…
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By Emmanuel N. Tamufor
I am an African student from Cameroon. I am currently studying on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit in Ontario, Canada as a visitor of the Anishinaabek Peoples. My decision to engage in Indigenous-led conservation research was motivated by work from my MA in Environmental Policy at the Environmental Policy Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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By Colin R. Sutherland
In Canada, many land managers are scrambling to address the negative impacts of over a century of wildland fire suppression, an approach to fire management that aims to limit the amount of fire on the landscape. This approach has interrupted natural fire cycles and has led to an increase in flammable forest fuels, the loss of fire-adapted ecosystems, and the allowance of urban expansion into fire-prone environments.
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The Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP) blog, Together, We Rise! is a space for partners and affiliates to share knowledge, research, and reflections about Indigenous-led conservation and CRP activities. The blog aims to inspire, inform, and connect people and organizations, and to support the CRP’s goal to transform the conservation sector in Canada.
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By Kristy Franks
The Water Wonders project is a way to connect the research process with real world experiences and aims to benefit those involved. I am honoured to have been working with the Cree Nation of Wemindji since 2014, and with partners from Adnyamathanha, Kaurna, and Ngarrindjeri communities in Australia since 2018. I strive for the work to be applicable, relevant, and reciprocal. I squirm at the idea of my doctoral work remaining limited to exclusive interviews and academic articles (although yes the articles will happen too!).
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By Chloe Dragon Smith and Robert Grandjambe
We wrote this story because we have been feeling the frustrations of our experiences in the Park, where we have been based since the Covid19 pandemic hit hard in March. I have had the privilege of being involved in the Pathway to Canada Target 1 as a member of the National Advisory Panel, a federal initiative to support the creation of more protected areas in Canada.
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A joint statement from the CRP Leadership Circle
Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians alike have watched the conflict over inherent and treaty fishing rights to lobster on the East Coast in disappointment and deep concern. It is hard to believe, more than five years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was concluded and the federal government committed to meeting all 94 calls to action, that we see yet another conflict over Indigenous harvesting rights in their traditional territories. There are persistent misunderstandings about our collective responsibilities to uphold aboriginal rights enshrined in the Canadian constitution and in UNDRIP.
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By Anastasia Papadopoulos
I was offered an opportunity through the CRP to work with the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq (CMM) and the Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources (UINR) on a project focused on exploring IPCA governance barriers, opportunities, and aspirations in Nova Scotia. This was exciting to me – it was an opportunity to learn what it meant to do community-partnered research, and to learn how to actively engage in Ethical Space.
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By James Snider, WWF-Canada VP Science, Knowledge and Innovation
In Canada, our recent focus has largely been on Aichi Target 11: protecting 17 per cent of our land and inland waters, and 10 percent of our marine areas. The Government of Canada has additionally stated an ambitious goal of protecting 25 percent by 2025 and 30 percent by 2030. It’s a bold move that should be applauded, but to be meaningful — that is, to ultimately stop and reverse the trends of wild loss underway in Canada — we need to look beyond area-based targets alone.
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By Larry Innes
50 years ago, a delegation from Ottawa chartered a bush plane into the small and remote Denesǫłine village of Łutsël K’e (then called Snowdrift). Twenty-one federal officials packed into the small band council office, and unrolled maps showing the boundaries of a new National Park on the East Arm of the Great Slave Lake, covering much of the territory that the community hunted and trapped for its livelihood.
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By Steven Nitah, Indigenous Leadership Initiative and CRP Leadership Circle and Mary-Kate Craig, PhD Candidate, Anwaatin Inc.
Canada has an incredibly valuable asset in its natural systems. In the face of climate change, this is an asset whose value the world can now recognize. Previously, Canadian society tended to look at these natural systems as resources that were only valuable when cut down, used and processed in some way. Now, in the face of the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change, Canada and the world are catching up to Indigenous peoples who have always known and advocated for the importance and interconnectedness of natural systems.
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By Justine Townsend, PhD Candidate and CRP Researcher
May 15, 2020
Between 2018 and 2020 a team of researchers from the CRP at the University of Guelph joined with Anwaatin and Shared Value Solutions to explore nature-based solutions in an Indigenous context. We looked at the potential alignment of Indigenous-led conservation (i.e. conservation and stewardship led by Indigenous Peoples) and Indigenous-led, nature-based carbon storage (e.g. carbon offsets) by centering Indigenous perspectives.
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