Conduct Surveys: Open-Access Article and Vancouver Island

conduct surveys: The project, which started in 2012, brought together scientists and Indigenous leaders to conduct surveys, interviews, and workshops from Vancouver Island to Alaska, according to Georgia Asian. Go here for a collection of articles and releases connected to the timeline of the project. The paper, published as an open-access article on May 12 in People and Nature, a journal of the British Ecological Society, considered the research generated by a collaborative initiative called Coastal Voices. It involved the Haida, Heiltsuk, and Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations. The apex predator of coastal kelp-forest ecosystems has successfully moved back into many of its former territories, from Alaska to southern Vancouver Island recovery efforts in Washington state, Oregon, and California are ongoing and less successful at the present time. The experiences of northern Vancouver Island's Kyuquot/Chekleset First Nations and southern Alaska's Sugpiaq people from the villages of Port Graham and Nanwalek were heavily surveyed, as they have lived with the recovery/reintroduction of sea otter populations since the 1970s and 1950s respectively . On its website, the Coastal Voices goal is described as follows Through the lens of traditional knowledge and western science, our goal is to collect and share information to build a respectful dialogue to better equip coastal communities and policy makers with socially just and ecologically sustainable strategies to navigate the changes that come with the recovery of this key predator the sea otter . After the near-extinction of the sea otter on North America's West Coast in the 18th and 19th centuries due to ruthless exploitation by the commercial fur trade, international protections enacted in the early 1900s started populations of the marine mammal on the road to recovery. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.