To address the climate and biodiversity crises, we must stop criminalizing Indigenous Peoples for exercising their treaty rights and start upholding them instead.
On Oct. 24, the Northwest Territories Supreme Court quashed a search warrant that allowed wildlife officers to raid a Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation culture camp in Thaidene Nëné National Park Reserve based on allegations of illegal hunting.
This is a prominent example of how the federal, territorial and First Nations governments have been working together to protect a culturally and ecologically significant landscape. However, the raid on the Łutsël K’é Dene culture camp last month undermines these relationships and emphasizes the importance of Indigenous rights and community leadership for biodiversity conservation. An attack of Indigenous rights is an attack on nature conservation.
The report advised the Canadian government on how to meet its international conservation commitments under the UN Convention of Biological Diversity by, in part, establishing these IPCAs in the spirit of the original treaties. It argued that all IPCAs should be Indigenous-led, but supported by others.
The Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership — a program hosted by the Indigenous Leadership Initiative and Iisaak Olam Foundation and the University of Guelph — has witnessed a rise in the number of new and emerging IPCAs. There are more than 70 declared IPCAs today. Instead, they obtained a warrant to conduct an extensive tent-by-tent search of a cultural camp of more than 80 people there. On Sept. 13, wildlife officers flew in to the culture camp at Timber Bay and spent three hours conducting their search.
In the words of the local Member of the Legislative Assembly Richard Edjericon, this incident “runs the risk of setting Indigenous relations back another 150 years.”
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