From Canada to California, Indigenous firefighters build on generations of knowledge.

Giving funding directly to Indigenous groups is not only morally right and anti-colonialist in spirit but also more efficient and effective.

Former MP Ethel Blondin-Andrew says Indigenous people have the know-how but lack resources to help mitigate climate change.

In Canada, Indigenous women are leading the charge to preserve biodiversity and fight climate change by heading up important new conservation initiatives.

When you love someone or something, you do everything you can to protect them. You fight for them. You nurture them. You interact with them. Love involves care, closeness, protectiveness, attraction,...

The Seal River is Manitoba’s only major waterway that hasn’t been dammed — and five Indigenous communities have banded together to keep it that way by establishing a protected area

The First Nations Guardians Gathering 2021 was a celebration of what Guardians do on behalf of our communities, our Nations, and Canada. When you bring hundreds of Guardians together, you can feel...

Canada Tonight with Ginella Massa is joined by Valérie Courtois, Director of Indigenous Leadership Initiative and an Innu forester to talk about how Indigenous people have cared for Canada's natural...

Indigenous Peoples are living the change that all recent scientific reports call for; this provides a baseline for policymakers and governments at COP28.

Sellars is an author as well as a former councillor and chief of the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia.

Indigenous-led conservation should be centre stage at the United Nations biodiversity conference in Montreal, COP15, experts say

As the international community gathers in Montreal, they will see that sustaining biodiversity—and healthy communities—is already underway, and they will see that Indigenous Nations are blazing the...

Nine foundations on Wednesday pledged a total of $5 billion to protect and conserve 30 percent of the planet by 2030 — marking the largest-ever private funding commitment to biodiversity.The founda…

Over 60 Indigenous leaders and partners attended a stewardship gathering on the Lummi Nation. Shaped by the rise in Indigenous-led stewardship in the U.S. and inspired by similar movements in Canada...

At a recent online event hosted by the Indigenous Leadership Initiative, leaders talked about Indigenous stewardship and the benefits it creates for all people. Indigenous leaders on the land, said...

There are some 70 groups of Indigenous Guardians across Canada. Their formal network is only five years old, but the work they do goes back for hundreds of generations.

Two recent warnings from the UN about climate change and biodiversity loss point to an important bright spot: the role of Indigenous Peoples in protecting the land

Indigenous Peoples have been caring for this continent for millennia. Today many Indigenous Nations have added a new tool for stewardship work: Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCA)....

Canada’s efforts to set up marine conservation areas in the Arctic and partner with Indigenous and Inuit communities in protecting vast tracts of wilderness across the country are some of the bright...

Collaboration in the Northwest Territories should provide a model for the rest of the country on addressing the pressing challenges of our time, strengthening Indigenous cultures, and demonstrating...

Michele Audette, one of the commissioners for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, is among the five newest members of the Senate.

Dozens of countries are backing an effort that would protect 30 percent of Earth’s land and water. Native people, often among the most effective stewards of nature, have been disregarded, or worse,...

Following a year of discussions between Mushkegowuk Council and the federal government, the James Bay Coast is moving closer to being declared a National Marine Conservation Area.

As various levels of government become more serious about climate change, there has been heightened interest in incorporating Indigenous knowledge in that effort.

Colonization decimated Pacific herring, surf smelt and eulachon populations. Now the Tsleil-Waututh Nation is trying to ‘reset the clock.’

True reconciliation requires an honest conversation about the past and present. But reconciliation must also be rooted in the land. It calls for respecting the centrality of the land in healing...

The Network Action Plan covers the Northern Shelf Bioregion, an area that spans roughly the northern third of Canada’s West Coast

"There's an awakening happening all across Canada." Dahti Tsetso is no stranger to Indigenous issues. This year, she joins the Indigenous Lea ...

For 60,000 years, many First Nations peoples managed the land that sustained us. Fire, for us, was not destructive. It created new life. We believe bringing back cultural burning is an important step...

Indigenous-led conservation aims to secure a future for nature by reconnecting with traditional knowledge. We talk to Valérie Courtois, director of the Indigenous Leadership Initiative; and Dolcy...