Collaboration Is Key to Improving Outcomes for Indigenous Guardians

The QENTOL, YEN / W̱SÁNEĆ Marine Guardians’ recent experience attending IMPAC5 has generated a lot of interest in our work out in the Salish Sea.

In March, we received visits from two groups who attended the IMPAC5 conference: the Stewardship Department of Kwikwetlem First Nations (KFN) and the Coastal Conservation team of the BC Metis Association (BCM).

The KFN Group, which has a stewardship program, spent a day on the Salish Sea with us to observe how we conduct our monitoring work, particularly transect work, and how we document our monitoring. On the second day, we showed them our fieldwork at Goldstream using our drone and our stream walk.

BCM wanted to get an overview of our monitoring program because they are looking to potentially develop their own environmental surveying and monitoring.

Kwikwetlem First Nations Stewardship Department and QENTOL, YEN Group

David and BCM Staff

BCM Team Helping with Monitoring

KFN and QENTOL, YEN at Goldstream