Pjila’si-Summer 2009
Notes from UINR’s Executive Director Lisa Young Welcome to our 5th year of the UINR MARTEN! Our quarterly newsletter has been very successful in getting the word out on our activities at UINR. Not only do we deliver a copy to every household in the five Mi’kmaq communities in Unama’ki, we distribute copies far and...
News Bits Summer 2009
When UINR needs to twist someone’s arm, we know who to send. Mark MacPhail, UINR’s Director of Forestry just won his fourth gold medal in the Canadian National Arm Wrestling Championships! So next time you need a little persuading…Fisheries and Oceans Canada are working on a new Memorandum of Understanding with UINR that will lay...
We’re on a mission!
We’re on a mission! Take thousands of people, put them on an island for four days with no sewage system and no where to dispose of their garbage and you can imagine what is left behind. This was the scene every year at the annual Chapel Island Mission in the small community of Potlotek. Back...
Mi’kmaq Commercial Fisheries Coordinator Responds to Federal Lobster Bailout
On June 10th the federal government promised $65 million in relief to the troubled Atlantic lobster industry, with $15 million for short-term transitional contributions for harvesters who experienced a 25% drop in income this year. Hubert Nicholas, the Commercial Fisheries Liason Co-ordinator with the Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources (UINR) in Eskasoni has this to...
UINR Partners with Parks Canada on Eel Study
The Unama’ki Institute for Natural Resources (UINR) is working with Parks Canada to study the population of American eel in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Throughout June UINR staff will catch, measure, and release elvers (young eels) as they enter the rivers and brooks between Ingonish Beach and Neil’s Harbour. The project is looking at...
Will Technology Make Our Water Resources Unlimited
UINR’s Intergovernmental Relations and Partnership Advisor Laurie Suitor was a presenter at Café Scientifique on the topic “Will Technology Make Our Water Resources Unlimited?” The panel discussion took place June 11 at the Just Us! Café, 5896 Spring Garden Road in Halifax. Laurie joined a small panel of experts who presented, discussed and conversed with...
UINR on Facebook and Twitter
Keep up-to-date on activities and news from UINR by joining our Facebook site. Go to Facebook and search for UINR and join. It will keep you in touch with job opportunities and give you all the news in Mi’kmaq natural resource stewardship, management and research. It would be tweet if you started following us at...
Ten Years!
On July 20th,1999, Chiefs Terry Paul, Allison Bernard, Morley Googoo, Mary Louise Bernard and Lindsay Marshall put their signatures to the official documents of the association that would grow into the vibrant organization UINR is today. In a special issue of the UINR MARTEN we look back over the past 10 years and collect up...
Pjila’si – Winter 2008
In some ways it seems like it was just yesterday that the spark ignited for what was to become the Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources. 10 years later and UINR is the Mi’kmaq voice on natural resources and the environment in Unama’ki. UINR is a unique and effective partnership of state-of-the art marine science and...
It’s all about the people: Annie E. Johnson
Annie E. Johnson is familiar to everyone who reads the UINR Marten…she’s our resident cartoonist! What you might not know is that Annie has other, more serious responsibilities at UINR. Currently, Annie oversees UINR’s operations and is filling Lisa Young’s position as Director of Administration while Lisa is on maternity leave. “I started at UINR...
Unama’KIDS update
Unama’KIDS is off to a great start! We started the fall season with a trip to the Highlands for a feast. Clifford Paul, our Moose Management Coordinator, hosts an annual feast in the Highlands at the height of the moose hunting season. Parks Canada, Natural Resources and whoever happens to be in the vicinity were...
What do YOU think?
UINR has received funding for habitat enhancement in the Bras d’Or Lakes. Habitat enhancement is any change that we can make to improve the habitat’s value and its ability to meet the needs of one or more species. For example, we have been involved in placing artificial lobster reefs to provide new habitats for lobster....