CIER FALL Newsletter 2022

Working together with nature improves water quality

Water knows no boundaries. As it flows through communities and across borders, regional collaboration is the key to understanding and taking-action on shared water challenges. Since 2017, a project by the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER) called the Collaborative Leadership Initiative (CLI) brought together 16 municipal and 11 First Nations elected leaders to make these decisions together.

Putting biodiversity on the map

The term ‘biodiversity’ is increasingly in the news. But what does it mean, in a way that is meaningful to everyone? Quite simply, biodiversity is the variety of all living species on earth – plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms – and the ecosystems they form.

First Nations empowered to monitor birds and other species at risk

IKat Hewitt, Wenona Gordon, Krystal Rancourt, and Nishitha Singhi work to take down an ARU in an aspen stand

It is important to protect all species at risk, and specifically in this focus– birds, as they also help with ecological balance by eating mosquitoes and pollinating plants. This helps to retain a healthy ecosystem. When any interconnection of species become at risk, it is a warning that a weakened ecosystem could ultimately affect our food chain and other living things.

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CIER's ultimate impact will be realized when First Nations in Canada are leaders of positive environmental change. They will use the best of western and Indigenous Knowledge to create a world that is in balance and supports the well-being of all living things.

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