Historical and contemporary indigenous marine conservation strategies in the North Pacific
| dc.contributor.author | Ban, Natalie C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wilson, Emma | |
| dc.contributor.author | Neasloss, Doug | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-18T22:15:51Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2019 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Strategies to reduce, halt, and reverse global declines in marine biodiversity are needed urgently. We reviewed, coded, and synthesized historical and contemporary marine conservation strategies of the Kitasoo/Xai'xais First Nation in British Columbia, Canada to show how their approaches work. We assessed whether the conservation actions classification system by the Conservation Measures Partnership was able to encompass this nation's conservation approaches. All firstāorder conservation actions aligned with the Kitasoo/Xai'xais First Nation's historical and contemporary marine conservation actions; hereditary chief management responsibility played a key role. A conservation ethic permeates Kitasoo/Xai'xais culture, and indigenous resource management and conservation existed historically and remains strong despite extreme efforts by colonizers to suppress all indigenous practices. The Kitasoo/Xai'xais's embodiment of conservation actions as part of their worldview, rather than as requiring actions separate from everyday life (the norm in nonindigenous cultures), was missing from the conservation action classification system. The Kitasoo/Xai'xais are one of many indigenous peoples working to revitalize their governance and management authorities. With the Canadian government's declared willingness to work toward reconciliation, there is an opportunity to enable First Nations to lead on marine and other conservation efforts. Global conservation efforts would also benefit from enhanced support for indigenous conservation approaches, including expanding the conservation actions classification to encompass a new category of conservation or sacredness ethic. | en_US |
| dc.description.embargo | 2020-11-04 | |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Reviewed | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Faculty | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The authors are grateful to members of the Kitasoo/Xai'xais First Nation who have generously shared their time and knowledge with us for this project. The authors thank all the Kitasoo/Xai'xais knowledge holders who contributed to the broader Heritage Project. The authors also thank the Kitasoo/Xai'xais leadership for supporting this project and Resource Stewardship past and present employees. The authors thank C. McKnight for his research assistant support, S. Harrison for helpful comments on the manuscript, and the University of Victoria Indigenous Law Research Unit for introducing their method at a workshop. Funding was provided by the Tides Canada Foundation ā British Columbia Marine Planning Fund, the University of Victoria Lansdowne Award, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ban, N. C., Wilson, E., & Neasloss, D. (2019). Historical and contemporary indigenous marine conservation strategies in the North Pacific. Conservation Biology, 34(1), 5-14. ttps://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13432. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13432 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11853 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Conservation Biology | en_US |
| dc.subject | first nations management | |
| dc.subject | great bear rainforest | |
| dc.subject | indigenous community conserved areas | |
| dc.subject | indigenous protected areas | |
| dc.subject | indigenous stewardship | |
| dc.subject | marine protected areas | |
| dc.subject.department | School of Environmental Studies | |
| dc.title | Historical and contemporary indigenous marine conservation strategies in the North Pacific | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |