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Valérie Courtois and Ernie Bussidor

Valérie Courtois is the director of the Indigenous Leadership Initiative and a member of the Innu community of Mashteuiatsh. Ernie Bussidor is executive director of the Seal River Watershed Alliance and former chief of the Sayisi Dene First Nation in Manitoba.

To address climate change and biodiversity loss, support Indigenous-led conservation

To maintain caribou, pictured, salmon, moose, and other species, for instance, scientists say we must protect intact lands at a large scale. In this country, the biggest proposals for conserving lands are coming from Indigenous Nations, write Valérie Courtois and Ernie Bussidor. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia
To maintain caribou, pictured, salmon, moose, and other species, for instance, scientists say we must protect intact lands at a large scale. In this country, the biggest proposals for conserving lands are coming from Indigenous Nations, write Valérie Courtois and Ernie Bussidor. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia
To maintain caribou, pictured, salmon, moose, and other species, for instance, scientists say we must protect intact lands at a large scale. In this country, the biggest proposals for conserving lands are coming from Indigenous Nations, write Valérie Courtois and Ernie Bussidor. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia
To maintain caribou, pictured, salmon, moose, and other species, for instance, scientists say we must protect intact lands at a large scale. In this country, the biggest proposals for conserving lands are coming from Indigenous Nations, write Valérie Courtois and Ernie Bussidor. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia