Wilderness Training for Guardians
Unama’ki guardians and UINR staff spent two days learning wilderness first aid. The session completed wth a hands-on exercise on Goat Island, Eskasoni.
Thinking Outside the Box
Tom Howe, Fisheries & Oceans Canada; Tom Johnson, Eskasoni Fish and Wildlife; Joyce Patel, Fisheries & Oceans Canada; Derek Quann, Parks Canada; Annie Johnson, UINR; Norman Basque, Potlotek Guardians, Darryl Murrant, Nova Scotia Fisheries & Aquaculture; Marlene Doyle, Indigenous & Northern Affairs Canada; Hubert Nicholas, Membertou Fisheries; Keith Christmas, UINR; Lisa Young, UINR; Charles Doucette, … Read More
Lorraine Recognized for Outstanding Work
Please join us in congratulating UINR’s Community Drinking Water Quality Monitor Lorraine Marshall who was recently recognized for her outstanding contribution to the re-development of the Water Monitors’ Log Book. Lorraine, a member of Health Canada’s Community Based Water Monitor Task Group, received an Excellence and Merit Award from the Department’s Assistant Deputy Minister. lorraine@uinr.ca
How Are Plamu/Salmon Like Trees?
Plamu/Salmon are a big deal at UINR and we do a lot of work to make sure they are here for future generations to enjoy. Every spring we capture young Plamu (smolt) and take a sample of their scales to do further research. Working with Ocean Tracking Network at Dalhousie University our new recruit, Emma … Read More
Lifetime Achievement Award Presented
On January 28, 2016 Charlie Joe Dennis was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from Aquaculture Association of Nova Scotia for his outstanding contributions to the Nova Scotia aquaculture industry, the province of Nova Scotia, the community of Eskasoni, and the Mi’kmaw nation as a whole. Charlie’s widow Helen Dennis accepted the award that recognized … Read More
Not Just the Facts! :)
UINR just published a series of twelve fact sheets on Unama’ki plants, animals, birds, and fish that are of special importance to Mi’kmaw people. In both Mi’kmaq and English, our fact sheets don’t just give scientific information, they also look at why they are important to Mi’kmaw people and what we have learned from our Elders. … Read More
Moose Harvest in National Park Meets Goal
The moose harvest in Cape Breton Highlands National Park is over for this year and, by all accounts, it was successful. Clifford Paul, UINR’s Moose Management Initiative Coordinator helped organize the harvest as part of our work with Parks Canada to reverse the trend of forest loss and begin to restore balance to the boreal … Read More
Netuklimk Around the World
UINR and the concept of Netuklimk that we helped make well-known has spread around the world. This week we heard from Carmen Seco Pérez from Barcelona, Spain. Last week she was in Paris, France as an organizer of the International Rights of Nature Tribunal. At the Paris venue was a wooden tree where people wrote … Read More
#Tiam Facts from the Mi’kmaw point of view
We’ve put together some facts about the Mi’kmaw harvest in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, a partnership with Parks Canada to remove a small number of moose from a small area of the Park in an effort to restore the boreal forest. From the Mi’kmaw point of view, it’s an issue of stewardship, rights and … Read More
Moose Management Plan Underway
The moose population reduction program on North Mountain in Cape Breton Highlands National Park will resume as early as December 2 through December 18, 2015. Public safety for all involved will continue to remain Parks Canada’s top priority. Parks Canada has worked with the RCMP to put in place a robust plan to ensure … Read More
Mi’kmaq Moose Harvest to Resume
Following Wednesday’s confrontation between protesters and Mi’kmaq harvesters, Park’s Canada sanctioned moose harvest was put on temporary hold. Today Mi’kmaq leaders, Parks Canada, and Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources met to plan the project’s resumption. We’koqma’q Chief Roderick Googoo , in charge of Lands, Wildlife, and Forestry with Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs, has … Read More
Questions on Mi’kmaq Moose Harvest in Cape Breton Highlands National Park
UINR is working on a project with Parks Canada to reverse forest loss in Cape Breton Highlands National Park by removing a small number of moose from a small area of North Mountain. Since being reintroduced in 1947, moose numbers have drastically increased in the Park and today, moose populations are greater than what the … Read More