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Category: Partner Stories

Indigenous-led conservation is the way forward
Partner Stories

Indigenous-led conservation is the way forward

May 19, 2023May 19, 2023

Elevating Indigenous leadership and rights is both the right thing to do and how we will help ensure healthy ecosystems can support all beings for many generations to come.

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Exploring Ethical Space: Land-based reconciliation in the Y2Y geography
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Exploring Ethical Space: Land-based reconciliation in the Y2Y geography

January 19, 2023March 28, 2023

What does land-based reconciliation look like in our region, and how do we get there, together?

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Healing the human-nature relationship
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Healing the human-nature relationship

October 25, 2022October 31, 2022

The Camas to Condors initiative is a collaborative Indigenous-led conservation initiative between the Nez Perce Tribe, university, and non-profit partners, including Y2Y.

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‘Buffalo brings people together’
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‘Buffalo brings people together’

October 19, 2022November 10, 2022

The Iniskim, Return of the Buffalo puppet lantern show came to Canmore on August 11. Get a glimpse of the evening and the significance of the story behind it.

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Building a bright future through Indigenous-led conservation
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Building a bright future through Indigenous-led conservation

September 22, 2022March 31, 2023

Y2Y supports Indigenous-led conservation in British Columbia — and beyond.

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Moving to create equitable access to nature and the outdoors
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Moving to create equitable access to nature and the outdoors

April 18, 2022April 13, 2022

Y2Y partner Alexis Hillyard with Stump Kitchen shares some thoughts on what it means to create safe spaces for all.

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Home on the range for carnivores and cattle
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Home on the range for carnivores and cattle

February 21, 2022February 17, 2023

One of Y2Y’s 2019 partner grantees studied an Alberta rancher’s ‘range riding’ efforts to protect cattle from predation — without killing the carnivores. Early results show it’s working.

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Fruitful measures to protect bears in British Columbia
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Fruitful measures to protect bears in British Columbia

February 14, 2022June 28, 2022

When it comes avoiding negative conflict between people and bears, managing fruit trees in communities is a key step.

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New hope for mountain caribou through Indigenous-led conservation
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New hope for mountain caribou through Indigenous-led conservation

September 15, 2021June 28, 2022

One of the conservation highlights in the Yellowstone to Yukon region in 2020 was the signing of the partnership agreement for caribou in British Columbia.

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The art (and science) of conservation across the Yellowstone to Yukon region
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The art (and science) of conservation across the Yellowstone to Yukon region

August 12, 2021December 23, 2021

Meet some of the painters, illustrators and other creative conservationists who have shared expressions of a better future for nature and people in recent years.

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An alliance for all things wild in east Idaho
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An alliance for all things wild in east Idaho

November 10, 2020June 17, 2021

The people of Henry’s Fork Wildlife Alliance are on a mission to keep wildlife populations healthy in the Upper Henry’s Fork Watershed of east Idaho. See how Y2Y’s partner grant program has supported their work in 2019 and 2020.

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Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y®) is a joint Canada-U.S. not-for-profit organization that connects and protects habitat from Yellowstone to Yukon so people and nature can thrive.


LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative's head offices are within Treaty 7, signed in 1877 by the Ĩyãħé Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) Nations of Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney; the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) Nations of Siksika, Aapatohsipikani (North Piikani), and Kainai; Tsuut’ina First Nation; and the British Crown.

These lands also overlap with the homelands of Aamskaapipikani (Blackfeet), Secwépemc, Ktunaxa, Mountain Cree, and the Metis Nation of Alberta (Zone 3).

We further acknowledge that the broader Yellowstone to Yukon region overlays at least 75 Indigenous territories.


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In the United States, the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, IRS #81-0535303. In Canada, the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Foundation is a registered 149(1)(f) charity, #86430 1841 RR0001.

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