Thoughts on BC Politics and More

Here’s a confession: “Indigenous-led conservation” is a term that’s always landed awkwardly with me, even though it’s in my job title. It feels like more of a marketing slogan than a mission statement, an appealing but slippery notion. Speaking from experience, Indigenous people are often cast as caretakers of the natural world. This designation stems from Indigenous laws and customs, but also, uncomfortably, from settler stereotypes and simplistic ideas about who we are and what we represent. There’s a vagueness about it that elicits questions: conserving whose land? Under what authority? Indigenous sovereignty, on the other hand, is much more concrete . . . . CLICK HERE for the full story