Sustainable Financing for Coastal Marine Management – CFN

December 12, 2023

First Nations on the North and Central Coast and Haida Gwaii have governed their territories for countless generations, and these lands and seas are among the richest and most productive ecosystems on Earth.

For years, leaders from coastal First Nations have been working collaboratively with federal and provincial agencies to replace more recent unsustainable approaches to resource extraction with Indigenous-led conservation models.

The first landmarks in these monumental planning efforts were the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements in 2006 and 2007: government-to-government conservation and management agreements spanning 6.4 million hectares of coastal temperate rainforest.

Read More: https://coastalfirstnations.ca/sustainable-financing-for-coastal-marine-management/