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Picture this: you’re sitting in a wetland collecting scientific data about gulls. Indigenous elders are also teaching you about their connection to the land. It’s called the two-eyed seeing approach. A handful of students used it recently at Irving Nature Park, New Brunswick as part of a field observation exercise on the last day of a two-week course that fuses marine ecology studies with Indigenous elder experience. It’s one of several themes explored in the course taught at Bilijk First Nation as a part of the Building Environmental Aboriginal Human Resources program, to inspire Indigenous people to pursue work in environment-based fields. The environmental program is offered by the non-profit Environmental Careers Organization Canada and is the first to be delivered in N.B. focused specifically on marine conservation. Leif Helmer, the program’s facilitator, said it’s important that courses like this one are available within Indigenous communities. “There’s a lot of environmental and marine and conservation-related needs in community,” he said. “And there’s a desire to solve those problems.” To find out more, click the link in our bio. (Reporting by Nipun Tiwari/CBC; Video by Graham Thompson/CBC & Fenn Mayes/CBC) #Indigenous #Science #Marine #Conservation #Nature #NewBrunswick

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@miltyisskeptical It was nice seeing CBC Indigenous doing a story involving horses the other day. Too bad @cbcnews chooses to keep beating a dead one with the foreign interference story.

May 26, 2023

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May 26, 2023