Community-Based Strategies

Selkirk First Nation

Keeping Our Traditions was a climate change adaptation planning project which deepened understandings of how traditional ecosystems, knowledge and practices, particularly as they relate to fish camps are being impacted by climate change. The project sought to find ways of keeping traditional Northern Tutchone knowledge, practices and culture alive as a pathway to mental health and wellbeing for youth in particular while adapting to the threat of climate change.

Key Resources Include:

• Adaptation Planning Report

• Fish Camp Guidebook

• Documentary film

Kluane First Nation

Nourishing Our Future is a community-based food security strategy which outlines ways in which Kluane First Nation will maintain their current traditional food sources, enhance their ability to grow their own food and contribute to making their community more food secure for the future. As part of the project, an emphasis was also paid to promoting traditional community food sharing practices and understand how climate change was impacting the fisheries within Kluane Lake.

Key Resources Include:

• Food Security Planning Report

• Community Food Sharing Report

• Fisheries and Fish Health Report

• Documentary film

Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation

The Vuntut Gwitchin Climate Change and Health Research in the Northern Yukon project was a three-phase food security and climate change initiative in Old Crow seeking to engage youth in research going on across their homelands, develop ideas for climate change adaptation as it relates to food security and how to put strategies into action to address priority food issues.

Key Resources Include:

• Community Food Security/Climate Change Reports

• Research Poster

• Documentary film