The Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP) has strived to ensure our collective work is relevant, accessible, and responsive to the informational and resource needs of the Indigenous-led conservation movement.
With the rapidly changing environmental conservation sector and increasing recognition of, and investments in, Indigenous conservation leadership, the CRP has shifted from a national approach to place-based initiatives.
In doing so, we’re striving to ensure that:
Our partnership is guided by Indigenous Peoples at all stages,
There is appropriate engagement with Indigenous knowledge systems at the local level, and
Projects are community-led through respectful, reciprocal, and responsible relationship-building.
In the first half of our partnership, we established and engaged seven national, interconnected Streams of Work. The Streams of Work created collaborative and reciprocal spaces where Elders, knowledge-keepers, university and community-based researchers, conservation practitioners, and community partners worked together to inform, support, and amplify Indigenous-led conservation.
These Streams of Work have transitioned to supporting key projects that feed into the CRP’s two areas of focus:
Support the conservation sector to take up recommendations set out by the Indigenous Circle of Experts in the We Rise Together report.
Establish and contribute to our three legacy projects: the IPCA Knowledge Basket, regional IPCA Centres of Innovation, and the IPCA alliance or network.
We are co-creating resources and tools that directly respond to the identified needs of IPCA initiatives. These resources will feed into the IPCA Knowledge Basket to help build capacity for Indigenous-led conservation and support the transformation of the conservation sector. We are also creating resources for the continued learning of conservation organizations and environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs).
Throughout our work, we continue to create space for intergenerational and peer-to-peer learning and collaboration. Students linked to the partnership are working on research projects across the country and internationally with Indigenous governments, communities, and organizations as well as environmental organizations.
Our projects are listed below and more information, including collaborators, is coming soon.
Projects Contributing to Legacy Projects
IPCA Infrastructure
Conservation Financing (Restore, Assert, and Defend Network)
Conservation Economies
Indigenous Land Trusts
Biocultural Indicators and Outcomes
Projects Supporting the Transformation of the Conservation Sector
Indigenous Storytelling Project: Past, Present, and Future Relationships with State-led Parks
Towards a Decolonial Conservation Sector: Workshop Series for Environmental Not for Profit Organizations
Balancing the Narrative: Communications Guidelines for Indigenous-led Conservation
Reconciling Jurisdiction to Support Indigenous-led Conservation
Indigenous Rights, Leadership and Governance in Urban National Parks and Ecological Corridors