Présentation du webinaire
PARTICIPANTS
Grant Gilchrist, PhD, Senior Research Scientist
Wildlife Research Division National Wildlife Research Centre, Environment and Climate Change Canada
OVERVIEW
In recent years, wildlife organizations such as the NAWMP and Sea Duck Joint Venture have been supporting a growing diversity of community-based conservation efforts. As just one example, many Indigenous groups share a deep concern for the health and management of waterfowl populations and have abundant wildlife-related knowledge to share. Because of this natural alignment of interests, there are currently several successful collaborations ongoing between Indigenous groups and waterfowl conservation programs in both North America and Greenland. I will review one of them, by drawing on 35 years of eider duck research in the Canadian Arctic. Many of our eider research projects simply would not have been possible without the direct contributions of Inuit. In addition, our research was also often driven by Inuit priorities, and in particular, their early detection of emerging conservation issues such as disease, altered predator-prey relationships, and declining populations that otherwise would have been missed. This isn't easy, though. Despite these successes, we still find that obstacles to Indigenous participation remain, and I will present our collective efforts to diminish them over both the short and long-term.
