Respect for Indigenous knowledge must lead nature conservation efforts in Canada

The past year has taught us important lessons about the consequences of the harm humans are inflicting on the natural world.

We’re confronting a global biodiversity crisis, losing species and natural places at an unprecedented rate. We’ve also experienced the repercussions of nature’s decline through COVID-19, whose jump from animals to humans may be linked to habitat destruction. And yet the international community failed to achieve a single Aichi Biodiversity Target to curb environmental destruction by 2020…continued…