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Category: Indigenous Relations

Youth Council Explores Wetlands in the Lake Simcoe Watershed

July 25, 2023–Maya Davidson

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Indigenous Relations•Wetlands•Youth

Holland Marsh boardwalk tour © Christine Ambre

This past May, the Ontario Nature Youth Council set out to explore the wonders of wetlands on a field trip to Holland Marsh and Scanlon Creek Conservation Area. Together, with Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA) and Cambium Professional Indigenous Services (CIPS), the Youth Council discovered the importance of protecting these at-risk habitats through three ...

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Ontario’s Protected Areas Working Group Report: Seven Things You Need to Know

July 20, 2023–Sarah Hasenack

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Indigenous Relations•Protected Places

Old growth red pine forest, Temagami area © Noah Cole

In 2021, the Government of Ontario appointed a Protected Areas Working Group to “identify opportunities to protect and conserve more natural areas” in the province, but the group’s final report and recommendations were never released. Two years later, Katie Krelove, Ontario Campaigner at the Wilderness Committee, obtained the report through a Freedom of Information request. ...

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Searching for Gnebigoog on Bkejwanong Territory

April 5, 2023–Guest blogger

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Community Science•Indigenous Relations•Reptiles and Amphibians•Stewardship and restoration

The wondrous world of snakes, or gnebigoog, as we say in Anishinaabemowin, was explored last July when Ontario Nature’s Brittney Vezina and Christine Ambre met up with a group of youth from the Bkejwanong Eco-Keepers (BEK) program for a knowledge sharing and training event all about snakes. The Bkejwanong Eco-Keepers is an ongoing Indigenous environmental ...

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Places Worth Protecting – The Nabish Wetland Complex

January 20, 2023–Kristen Setala

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Indigenous Relations•Protected Places•Wetlands

Trumpeter swans, Nabish Lake © Darlene Salter

By now you’ve probably noticed our provincial government has been taking a thorough, bit-by-bit approach to dismantling our environmental laws and policies. This makes the environmental challenges we are facing seem like pieces of an unsolvable puzzle. Of course, this is not the case. Indigenous Knowledge teaches us that every piece of the puzzle is ...

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Voices from the Youth Summit – Cross-cultural Knowledge and Understanding

March 11, 2022–Nathaniel Rose

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Indigenous Relations•Recreation and Events•Youth

The 2021 Youth Summit for Mother Earth connected over 100 youth across Ontario through a weekend-long event held online, providing a meaningful platform to engage youth to protect nature in the spirit and practice of reconciliation. As part of the Youth Summit, challenges planned by youth, for youth, gave participants the chance to spend time in nature ...

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