WISE Lab Kyra Kestrel & I had a great time in Saugeen Ojibway Nation for collaborative Mukwa (black bear) project. We also learned about harvesting wild leeks with Elder Miptoon. Building relationships with community & the Land - an important part of working together to care for Mukwa 🐻

WISE Lab field work and fun has begun! What a great week with Wiikwemkoong's Land Dept Theodore Flamand, Nancy Kinoshameg, Point Grondine Park staff, Andrew Young, and an incredible team of stellar students!

Come join our team! The WISE Lab welcomes MSc applicants for two projects focused on Weaving Ways of Knowing in Mooz Ecology in partnership with 1) Magnetawan First Nation and 2) Nipissing First Nation

Come join our team! Apply now. Please share. 🫎

Come join the WISE Lab and Wiikwemkoong's Species at Risk Program to study wolves!

NEW PAPER! Caring for Akina Gegoo: Anishinaabe perspectives on biodiversity and conservation in Magnetawan First Nation, led by WISE Lab Claire Kemp

“Taking the time to return to the land and feel the essence of the earth grounds our mind, body, heart, and spirit under stressful moments” - Absolon (2011)

Did you know that getting out on the Land helps improve mood, reduce stress and anxiety, fights depression, accelerates healing and much more? (Chauhan 2021).

Congratulations to WISE and Young Lab Natasha Hirt for successfully completing her MSc on “Prioritizing Indigenous Knowledge and values in mnidooshenhs (insect) monitoring with Wiikwemkoong” 🎉🙌

“One thing I will say about Indigenous Peoples is we have mastered the art maintaining hope” ✊🏼 - Michelle Good (2023)

WISE / Young Lab Natasha Hirt created a photovoice feature for Arramat that highlights our collaborative work with Wiikwemkoong to support youth engagement, recovery and restoration of a wetland in Wiikwemkoong Territory Check it out here: sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

New WISE Lab Paper! The concept of cultural keystone species, revisited through the eyes of Indigenous Peoples

WISE Lab Chris Lim is sharing his Ma’iingan (wolf) research at the @wahkohtowindevelopment Indigenous Lands Symposium 🐺

Lead with love ❤️

📣NEW PAPER ALERT! Practices for braiding knowledges for biodiversity research and monitoring

Come work with us!

PhD Opportunity! 📣🫎 The WISE Lab is partnering with @wahkohtowindevelopment to conduct moose research in the Chapleau, ON area, "Weaving Ways of Knowing for Revitalizing Community-led Moose Monitoring and Stewardship". Please share with anyone you think may be a good fit! 🫎🌿

"Working across cultures means recognizing and respecting each other’s different life experiences, goals, ideals, values, challenges, beliefs, family relationships, and so on. We are not all the same, and one is not better than the other." - Joseph and Joseph (2019)

“The source of a research project is the heart/mind of the researcher, and “checking your heart” is a critical element in the research process. A “good heart” guarantees a good motive, and good motives benefit everyone involved.” - Wilson (2008)

Have you been wanting to learn more about research & data sharing agreements for respectful cross-cultural collaboration with Indigenous Nations? Check out this cool resource (and more!) created by WISE Lab Claire Kemp and Magnetawan First Nation ⤵️ www.wiselab.ca/resources

"You could call them natural resources or ecosystem services, but the Robins and I know them as gifts." - Robin Wall Kimmerer 2024

Looking for an outreach, research, or community-based monitoring resource? Check out the ‘toolkits’ the WISE Lab students, staff, and partners have created here: www.wiselab.ca/resources

WISE Lab Alum Karl-Antoine Hogue published his MSc chapter on applying the 5 Rs of Indigenous research in practice

*NEW OPPORTUNITY* with the WISE Lab and Saugeen Ojibway Nation on "Community-Driven Mukwa (Black Bear) Conservation" - Please share!

THIS ⤵️ Rise up warriors of love.

Nature is medicine! 🌲🐺🐦‍⬛🦉🦌

Happy Winter Solstice ♥️

“The juice that bursts from these berries was rain just last week and it’s already on its way back to the clouds” 🥰

Mino manidoo giizhigad ❄️❤️