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“Caribou was the reason, and everything else happened after”: Effects of Caribou Declines on Inuit in Labrador, Canada
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Examines the critical interplay between cultural continuity and adaptive capacity for responding to ecological uncertainty based on an Inuit-led, multi-year, multi-media qualitative and visual media
Conservation Social Science: Understanding People, Conserving Biodiversity
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DESCRIPTION Groundbreaking book that examines the essential contribution of the social sciences to understanding and conserving biodiversity across the globe Authored by leading scholars at the nexus...
Documentary Release: HERD: Inuit Voices on Caribou
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A documentary film about a 99% decline of caribou and what that means for Inuit in the Nunatsiavut and NunatuKavut regions of Labrador, Canada had its Canadian broadcasting premiere of a at the...
First Scientific Data on Herd Size and Population Dynamics of the Torngat Mountains Caribou Herd
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Formal report of the results of the 2014 aerial survey of the Torngat Mountains caribou herd.
Global Peatlands Assessment: The State of the World’s Peatlands
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Peatlands are unique and rare ecosystems that, despite only covering around 3-4% of the planet’s land surface, they contain up to one-third of the world’s soil carbon, which is twice the amount of...
HERD: Inuit Voices on Caribou
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As a research initiative, the HERD project has co-created knowledge with Inuit about their relationship with caribou in the context of the population declines and hunting ban. We conducted video...
HERD: Inuit Voices on Caribou
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In the startling collapse of the once massive George River Caribou Herd - and a subsequent total hunting ban - Inuit in Labrador, Canada, were abruptly confronted with a new reality: life without a...
Inuit Co-management Led Research
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This "story" in the IPCA Knowledge Basket uses the Torngat Wildlife & Plants Co-management Board as a case study to describe and explain Indigenous co-management led research, with a focus on caribou...
Land Use Planning: Global Land Outlook Working Paper
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This brief presents evidence of land use planning, spatial planning, territorial (or regional) planning, and ecosystem-based or environmental land use planning as tools that can strengthen land governance, improve economic opportunities based on sustainable management of land resources, and develop land use options that reconcile conservation and development objectives.
Mealy Mountain Caribou Monitoring Update
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September 10th, 2020 at 10:00am AST to September 10th, 2020 at 11:00am AST
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Join Sara McCarthy, the Ecosystem Management Ecologist for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Wildlife Division, for a public presentation on the results of recent monitoring of the Mealy...
Mealy Mountain Tuktu Knowledge Project
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In order to better understand Inuit relationships to the Mealy Mountain (MM) herd, the long-term impacts of the hunting ban, and strategies for caribou management moving forward, this research...
Monitoring of the Torngat Mountains Caribou Herd
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Project Description: Inuit of Nunavik and Nunatsiavut have long known that a small caribou population was living year-round in the Torngat Mountains. Recognizing its unique status, the Committee on...
Relationships between Rangifer and Indigenous Well-being in the North American Arctic and Subarctic: A Review Based on the Academic Published Literature
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This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
Results of a Spring 2017 Aerial Survey of the Torngat Mountains Caribou Herd
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Formal report of the results of the 2017 aerial survey of the Torngat Mountains caribou herd.
Stories of Inuit-led Conservation
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March 17th, 2022 at 1:00pm EST to March 17th, 2022 at 3:00am EST
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Join us to learn about Inuit-led conservation initiatives in Labrador and Nunavut. Dr. Jamie Snook (Torngat Secretariat) and Derrick Pottle (Knowledge Holder, Guide, and Polar Bear Specialist) will...
UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15)
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December 7th, 2022 at 8:00am to December 19th, 2022 at 5:00pm
Montreal, QC
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Despite on-going efforts, biodiversity is deteriorating worldwide and this decline is projected to worsen with business-as-usual scenarios. The UN Biodiversity Conference will convene governments from...
Video - It’s Time for Wetlands Restoration
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On the occasion of Word Wetlands Day on 2 February 2023, the G20 Global Land Initiative Coordination Office in partnership with the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration...
Wading Through Aquatic Citizen Science Projects
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March 1st, 2023 at 12:00pm MST to March 1st, 2023 at 1:30pm MST
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Please join us for the next gathering of the Alberta Citizen Science Community of Practice, Wading Through Aquatic Projects. This March we will highlight Alberta's water-based citizen science projects...