Category: Partner Stories

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Y2Y’s B.C. program manager, Tim Burkhart, visited the newly expanded Klinse-za Indigenous Protected Area in the Peace in summer 2020. See the great progress Saulteau and West Moberly First Nations have made in mountain caribou recovery.

In a new short film, Nakoda AV Club worked on an animation project that shows the challenge of crossing Alberta’s fast-flowing Highway 1 through the eyes of wildlife. Watch it here!

Through our partner grants program, Y2Y is proud to have supported the creation of a guide brochure about Blackfoot Territory plants that are key to Blackfoot peoples’ food systems, and that have deep relationships with grizzly bears and bison.

For people and nature to thrive, we must work together. In this example of our work in wolverine conservation, find out why a combination of perspectives and people’s backgrounds are crucial to succeed.