Michelle Connolly, Director of the Climate Resilience program, writes about the Maiyoo Keyoh, an Indigenous partner in central interior BC, and their role in caring for the land and building climate resilience. With permission from Jim Munroe, the President and CEO of the Maiyoo Keyoh Society, she weaves in conversations they’ve had over the years and more recently in March. The Maiyoo Keyoh* is part of our Climate Resilience Network. Through this network, we collaborate with forest-dependent rural, remote, and Indigenous communities to identify economic alternatives to industrial logging and protect ancestral forests. These communities show that, with the right tools, capacity, and authority, their homelands can be resilient to climate change while meeting conservation, cultural, and socio-economic goals. I moved ...
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