Indigenous communities leading the way for woodland caribou recovery in Canada

The purpose of this report is to document, review and share the experiences of the Indigenous communities that have taken a lead on caribou action planning initiatives and also to review those documents/initiatives in which Indigenous peoples have been key to the development/implementation or management of caribou action planning. [...] Five tasks were carried out to conduct the review: 1) Preparation 2) Attending the 15th North American Caribou Workshop 3) Conducting the review 4) Analyzing the results 5) Reporting 2.1 PREPARATION To prepare for and conduct the review, CIER held project planning calls with the BLC’s Caribou Project Team throughout the duration of the project. [...] Sections 1-3 of the questionnaire were used in the document review to frame the extraction and analysis of the data. [...] In all of the interviews with Indigenous community members, the community (six interviews), or elders in the community (three interviews), were identified as the leaders in the caribou management initiative. [...] Of the eight participants that completed the TK question in the questionnaire, all answered yes when asked if TK was used in the caribou management initiative and some described the ways in which TK was collected and used.