Indigenous-led conservation: Pathways to recovery for the nearly extirpated Klinse-Za mountain caribou.

ABSTRACT: Indigenous Peoples around the northern hemisphere have long relied on caribou for subsistence and for ceremonial and community purposes. Unfortunately, despite recovery efforts by federal and provincial agencies, caribou are currently in decline in many areas across Canada. In response to recent and dramatic declines of mountain caribou populations within their traditional territory, West Moberly First Nations and Saulteau First Nations (collectively, the "Nations") came together to create a new vision for caribou recovery on the lands they have long stewarded and shared. The Nations focused on the Klinse-Za subpopulation, which had once encompassed so many caribou that West Moberly Elders remarked that they were "like bugs on the landscape." The Klinse-Za caribou declined from ~250 in the

SUBMITTER: Lamb CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9286450 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature