Spurred by a desire to document and prioritize concerns related to climate change, a group of 37 environmental professionals, Elders and youth from 12 Anishinabek Nation communities in the upper Great Lakes region attended a workshop in the Magnetawan First Nation in 2019 to share knowledge and insights and to identify important regional research directions for action. The most important climate change research directions shared by participants were to develop research and policies that include both Indigenous and western knowledge and the need to prioritize more wholistic and ecosystem-based (as opposed to species-specific) approaches, especially in relation to animal and plant inventories and long-term monitoring.
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