{"id":140001,"date":"2023-02-08T15:54:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T20:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=140001"},"modified":"2023-02-09T10:11:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T15:11:46","slug":"six-nations-wildlife-hopes-community-engagement-leads-to-successful-aerial-insectivore-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/six-nations-wildlife-hopes-community-engagement-leads-to-successful-aerial-insectivore-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations Wildlife hopes community engagement leads to successful aerial insectivore project"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Six Nations Wildlife and Stewardship Office<\/a> (SN Wildlife) is currently seeking community input to help on a Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) study on aerial insectivores (primarily birds and bats) to study the animals nesting and making Six Nations their homes.<\/p>\n

SN Wildlife has partnered with Nature Canada<\/a> on the project and received funding from Environment Climate Change Canada<\/a>. SN Wildlife is now looking for community input on these animals: where they can be found in the area and what they mean culturally to the Six Nations community.<\/p>\n

Lauren Jones, Wildlife Manager for SN Wildlife, highlighted the importance of gathering the information for this project to see how these animals are using the local habitat on Six Nations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe species in particular, though, they are all decreasing in numbers across North America. Many of them are considered to be special, concerned or threatened or endangered, and so I think it\u2019s very important to see what the status of them are on the reserve and how they\u2019re using this habitat because for many species and for many areas across Ontario. They don\u2019t have the habitat that Six Nations does. So we\u2019re kind of a refuge for these species in a lot of ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones spoke on the role that these animals play in the current ecosystem but also said culturally they are significant as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, any species in the ecosystem has an important part in that food chain and in the environment in general, they\u2019re also included in the creation story, for example. I read some old stories given to me by Six Nations Polytechnic that specifically mention bats, for example,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that just inherently they\u2019re very important but, obviously, scientifically they\u2019re very important as well because if they\u2019re gone what\u2019s going to be eating all those mosquitoes that bother us so much,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Jones said that the Six Nations biological inventory will also be boosted by this project. The inventory has not been updated since 1985 and Jones hopes that this project will help to enhance that and update how these species have changed in that time.<\/p>\n

She also spoke of her hopes to engage community members and gather input from those in the community who have scientific and cultural knowledge of these species.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhysically, where the birds are and how they\u2019re using their habitat is very important information, but also what these birds mean to community members themselves. I think that\u2019s really important information to pass on to future generations and I think that it\u2019s really important that Six Nations is represented in that way,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of instances in Canadian history that in which Indigenous viewpoints have not been represented in any way, and then so this is an opportunity to do that in this project.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hope is to create a \u201cstewardship\u201d through the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hope is once we have all that data, when we have the historical data, when we\u2019ve done the TEK interviews, when we\u2019ve done the surveys and we\u2019ve actually said these species are using this area, or this species is really declining and could use our help, then, ideally, we want to come up with some sort of stewardship,\u201d she said. \u201cThat could mean planting a habitat, building nest boxes, just generally making policy changes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interested volunteers can contact Jones at 519-445-0330 Ext.\u00a04438 or email her at laurenjones@sixnations.ca. Volunteers will be able to complete a workbook-style interview to go through the specific species to see what kind of knowledge that community members can bring to the project.<\/p>\n

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