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Five Benefits of Placing Indigenous Knowledge at the Heart of Environmental Monitoring

Darrell Settee of Pimicikamak Cree Nation, image taken by Laura Taylor

With field season quickly approaching, we are revisiting our Environmental Monitoring Guide as a source of inspiration! Today in our blog, we are talking about the...

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Five Key Questions in Planning a Community-led Environmental Monitoring Program

Field season is just around the corner!  If you've got big plans, we've got some ideas for you! 

What better way to protect your lands and waters than to keep a deliberate, watchful eye on what matters? However, we get that creating an...

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Plant the Seed- Making the Case for a Lands and Consultation Department

If you work in your Nation’s lands, resources, or consultation departments, or hold these portfolios on Council, you likely know all too well what it feels like to be drowning in consultation emails. Whether it is a proponent reaching out about...

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Focusing on What Matters: How to Screen and Prioritize Requests

“Looking back on it, you don’t know what you’re missing because you don’t know what the opportunities are. That’s one of the challenges I think for any First Nation. You don’t know what you’re missing. And if you don’t have the right system, and...

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How to Structure an Effective Lands and Consultation Department

“The roles within the Lands Office should reflect the priorities of the communities.” —Mark MacDougall, Regulatory and Research Consultant, SVS

In the first post of our Lands and Consultation Department series, we talked about how having a...

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Plant the Seed: Making the Case for a Lands and Consultation Department

If you work in your Nation’s lands, resources, or consultation departments, or hold these portfolios on Council, you likely know all too well what it feels like to be drowning in consultation emails. Whether it is a proponent reaching out about...

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Along the Line: Why Linear Corridors Need Environmental Monitoring

Welcome to the final post in our environmental monitoring series. Thank you for joining us on the exciting ride through all things environmental monitoring. We have covered several important topics to consider when planning your own...

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Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas: What You Need to Know

If you've been following our Environmental Monitoring blog series, you've hopefully been inspired by all the ways environmental monitoring can benefit your community. One benefit of having baseline data from environmental monitoring that you may...

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World Water Day and the Indigenous Water Crisis: Protecting What Matters

March 22, 2022 is World Water Day. The theme this year is “Groundwater — Making the Invisible Visible.” Here at SVS, we recognize the significance of water for our clients and their communities. So much so that some of our resident water experts...

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