Why communities must be at the heart of conserving wildlife, plants and ecosystems

A little more than a year ago, the Haida Nation released the Land-Sea-People plan to manage Gwaii Haanas, off the coast of northern British Columbia, “from mountaintop to seafloor as a single, interconnected ecosystem.”

It’s an innovative conservation effort that demonstrates how the Haida Nation and Canada’s federal government can achieve biodiversity targets, protect the rights of Indigenous people and encourage collaboration among communities, governments and society. And it’s an example of what we need more of to meet conservation objectives in the coming decade.

Read the full article by Derek Armitage (SERS professor), Ella-Kari Muhl (SERS PhD student) and colloborators from University of Cape Town.