scholarly journals Qanuq ukua kanguit sunialiqpitigu? (What should we do with all of these geese?) Collaborative research to support wildlife co-management and Inuit self-determination

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique A. Henri ◽  
Natalie A. Carter ◽  
Aupaa Irkok ◽  
Shelton Nipisar ◽  
Lenny Emiktaut ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Habitat Alteration ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Chen Caerulescens ◽  
Chen Rossii ◽  
Inuit Knowledge ◽  
Management Recommendations ◽  
Participatory Research Methods

Inuit living in Nunavut have harvested light geese and lived near goose colonies for generations. Inuit knowledge includes important information about light goose ecology and management that can inform co-management and enhance scientific research and monitoring. Since the 1970s, populations of light geese (Snow and Ross’ Geese; kanguit and kangunnait in Inuktut; Chen caerulescens (Linnaeus, 1758) and Chen rossii (Cassin, 1861)) have experienced significant increases in abundance which led to habitat alteration in some portions of the central and eastern Canadian Arctic. In response to concerns expressed by Inuit and wildlife managers about light goose abundance, we conducted a collaborative research project in Arviat and Salliq (Coral Harbour), Nunavut, aiming to mobilize and document Inuit knowledge about light goose ecology and management in the Kivalliq region. Here, we explore the potential of collaborative research for mobilizing Inuit knowledge to support informed and inclusive decision-making about wildlife resources. First, we describe the participatory research methods employed to explore Inuit-identified management recommendations for light geese and engage co-management partners and research contributors to explore select management options. Then, we present these light goose management recommendations and options. Lastly, we discuss opportunities and challenges around the use of collaborative research to support wildlife co-management and Inuit self-determination. Inuit nunaqaqtut Nunavuumi angunasuksimalirmata kanguqpangnik kangurniglu nunaqarvingita sanianni araagunik unuqtunnik. Inuit qaujimaningat ilaqaqpuq aturnilingnik kanguit niqinginnik mianirijauninginniklu tusaumatitaulutik qaujisarningit mianiriyaunigillu. Taimangat 1970s atuqtilugit, kanguit unirningit (kanguit amma kanguaryuit Inuktut; Chen caerulescens (Linnaeus, 1758) amma Chen rossii (Cassin, 1861)) ayunganaqtukut pisimangmata unulialiqlutik amma niqiqatiarungnauqlutik Kanataup uqiuktaqtunngani. Tamana piblugu Inuit uumayuliriyillu isumaalulirmata kanguit unulualirninginnik, taima qaujisarnirmik pigialauqpugut Arvianni and Sallim (Coral Harbour), Nunavuumi, aulataulutik amma qaujisagaulutik Inuit kaujimajagit kangurnik Kivallirmi. Tavani atuqtuuluaqtunik qaujisarnirmut mianiqsinirmullu pitaqaqpuq Inuit nagminiq isumaliurlutik nirjutinut atugaksanullu. Sivullirmik, qaujisarniup qanuinninga isumagilugu kanguit mianirijauninginut. Amma suli, uqausirilirlugu kanguit mianirijauningat atugaujuuluaqtullu. Kingulirmik, uqausirilugu atuinnaujut amma ajurutaujut qaujisarniup iluanni nirjutinik amma Inuit nagminiq aulatuulualirninginnik.

Lived experience influencing law reform: insights from a collaborative research project

2020 ◽  
pp. 146879412092565
Author(s):  
Eilionóir Flynn ◽  
Clíona de Bhailís ◽  
María Laura Serra
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Legal Capacity ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Recruitment And Selection ◽  
Selection Of

This article will explore the methodologies employed in a collaborative research project on lived experience of exercise or denial of legal capacity, known as the Voices of Individuals: Collectively Exploring Self-determination (VOICES) project. In so doing, the project’s research team will reflect on key decisions about the project’s background, design, implementation (including the recruitment and selection of participants, workshops and editing contributions) and considerations for further research.

scholarly journals Lesser Snow Geese, Chen caerulescens caerulescens, and Ross's Geese, Chen rossii, of Jenny Lind Island, Nunavut

2008 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Richard H. Kerbes ◽  
Katherine M. Meeres ◽  
James E. Hines ◽  
David G. Kay
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Degradation ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Snow Goose ◽  
Chen Caerulescens ◽  
Snow Geese ◽  
Lesser Snow Geese ◽  
Limited Food ◽  
Chen Caerulescens Caerulescens ◽  
Chen Rossii ◽  
Ross's Geese

We surveyed the Lesser Snow (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) and Ross’s geese (Chen rossii) of Jenny Lind Island, Nunavut, using aerial photography in June 1988, 1998, and 2006, and a visual helicopter transect survey in July 1990. The estimated number of nesting geese was 39 154 ± SE 2238 in 1988, 19 253 ± 2323 in 1998, and 21 572 ± 1898 in 2006. In 1988 an estimated 2.7% of the nesting geese were Ross’s. The July 1990 population of adult-plumaged birds was 25 020 ± 3114. The estimated percentage blue morph among Snow and Ross’s geese was 19.0% in 1988, 25.1% in 1989, 23.0% in 1990 and 21.1% in 2006. Estimated pre-fledged Snow Goose productivity was 47% young in 1989 and 46% in 1990. Combined numbers of Snow and Ross’s geese on Jenny Lind Island grew over 250 fold, from 210 adults in 1962-1966 to 54 100 adults in 1985. Numbers subsequently declined, to 42 200 in 1988, 25 000 in 1990, 20 300 in 1998, and 26 400 in 2006. Population decline between 1985 and 1990 was consistent with anecdotal reports by others that die-offs of Snow Geese occurred in 1984, 1985 and 1989, and with our August 1989 fieldwork which found evidence of habitat degradation and malnourishment of young geese. In spite of limited food resources on Jenny Lind Island, the colony continued to exist in 2006 at near its 1990 and 1998 levels. Further studies there could provide insights for management of the overabundant mid-continent Snow Goose population and its arctic habitats.

scholarly journals Breeding and Non-Breeding Range of Canada, Branta canadensis, and Cackling Geese, Branta hutchinsii, in the Eastern Canadian Arctic

2005 ◽  
Vol 119 (4) ◽  
pp. 483
Author(s):  
Mark L. Mallory ◽  
Alain J. Fontaine ◽  
Hugh Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Branta Canadensis ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Canada Geese ◽  
Baffin Island ◽  
Chen Caerulescens ◽  
Branta Canadensis Interior ◽  
Cackling Geese ◽  
Distributional Knowledge ◽  
Eastern Canadian Arctic

The accepted breeding distribution of Canada Geese from the Atlantic Population (Branta canadensis interior) in the eastern Canadian Arctic is currently confined to northern Québec and the south coast of Baffin Island. Here we provide evidence based on observations from scientific studies, Inuit hunters, and territorial Wildlife Officers that B. c. interior now breeds in growing numbers 500 km farther north on northeastern Baffin Island than previously reported. Cackling Geese (B. hutchinsii), which breed more widely across eastern Arctic Canada, to about 72°N, may also be increasing there. Moreover, individuals of both species are seen occasionally as far north as Ellesmere Island in small flocks and within migrating or moulting flocks of Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) or Brant (B. bernicla hrota), though none of these far northern stragglers are known to have bred. Whether these observations reflect a recent range expansion or improved distributional knowledge from more intensive recent survey efforts remains unknown.

scholarly journals Operationalizing knowledge coevolution: towards a sustainable fishery for Nunavummiut

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Schott ◽  
James Qitsualik ◽  
Peter Van Coeverden de Groot ◽  
Simon Okpakok ◽  
Jacqueline M. Chapman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
Cultural Resilience ◽  
Project Outcomes ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
Sustainable Fishery

Knowledge coevolution is the process through which information is generated by joining knowledge systems in an inclusive and iterative way to facilitate self-determination of communities and promote cultural resilience. A central and practical component of this framework is the fostering of progress towards improved co-management and community led research. Here, we illustrate a knowledge coevolution framework in the context of a major five-year genomics and food security fishery research project in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut. We highlight the process, changes in research objectives, logistical requirements, mutual benefits, and challenges associated with northern collaborative research, and what lessons we have learned from the process. Knowledge coevolution could be linked to more inclusive and effective fishery co-management in Nunavut and possibly elsewhere. Further, the research process appears to have reinforced Indigenous knowledge and Western science without merging these distinct knowledge systems. Here, we strive to provide readers with concrete examples of knowledge coevolution and encourage research groups to incorporate and improve these practices in future projects and in adaptive fishery co-management. We further call on funding agencies to place more value, and thus budgetary priority, on activities related to ongoing consultation, engagement, dissemination, and implementation of project outcomes. Qaujimaningi maruk ajingingituk pivallianirijanginnik pigiarutauplunni tukisikanirutit saqipaliasurmata nunalit nangminiq aulajungnaliquplugit iliqusinginniglu saqipalliatitsiquplugit aulajungnalirlutik nangminiq. Qitianittuq amma ilulirijauplunni piliriangujup pivallianiq turangajuq aqiumakanirnirmut aulatauninganut amma nunalingnut aulataujuq qaujisarniq. Ukua tava takutijutauniaqtut qaujimaningi maruk ajingingituk pivallianirijanginnik pilirianguniaqtunnik ilulinginnik angijut aragunni tallimani qaujisarnirmut amma niqiqatiarnirmut iqalulirinirmi qaujisarniq Uqsuqtummi, Nunavummi. Nalunaiqsipluta pilirianguniaqtunnik, asiangurninginnik qaujisarniup iluanni, aturiaqaqtunik piqutinik, angiqatigingnirmi, amma ilautittinirmik ukiuqtaqtumiunik qaujisarnirmut, iliniataujunik piliriarmit. Qaujimaningi maruk ajingingituk pivallianirijanginnik ilinganajarmat aulatauninganut kajusitiarnirmullu iqaluliriniup mianirijauninganni Nunavummi asinginnilu. Amma suli, qaujisarniq aqiktausimaplunni nunaqaqqaqsimajut tukisianinginnut amma qaplunat tukisianinginnut katitausimangiłutik tapkuak ajingingituk qaujimaniujut. Uvanni piliriaqaqpugut tukisikaniquplugit uqalimaqtut tungaviqatiaqtummik ukturaulaujunik qaujimaningi maruk ajingingituk pivallianirijanginnik amma ikajuqtuipluta timisiujunnik qaujisaqtinik atausingurlutik aqigiarlutiglu piliriangusuqtut sivunirmi amma atuliqtitaulutik iqalungnik aulatauninganut. Tuksiralaurrapta kinaujannik aturniaqtunnik timiujunnit, sivulliutitauplutik qinaujat aturiaqaqtut kajusijummut uqaqatiqarnirmut ilautittinirmut, asinginnullu tusaqtittinirmik atuliqtittinirmullu piliriangujunnik.

scholarly journals Experimental tests of phytoplankton response to ornithological eutrophication in Arctic freshwaters

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather L. Mariash ◽  
Milla Rauito ◽  
Mark Mallory ◽  
Paul A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nutrient Loading ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Freshwater Ecosystems ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽  
Phytoplankton Productivity ◽  
Cascading Effects ◽  
Chen Caerulescens ◽  
Dissolved Nitrogen ◽  
Terrestrial Habitats ◽  
Chen Rossii

Abstract. Many populations of Arctic-breeding geese have increased in abundance in recent decades, and in the Canadian Arctic, Snow (Chen caerulescens) and Ross’ Geese (Chen rossii) are formally considered overabundant by wildlife managers. The impacts of these overabundant geese on terrestrial habitats are well documented, and more recently, studies have suggested impacts to freshwater ecosystems as well. The direct contribution of nutrients from goose faeces to water chemistry could have cascading effects on biological functioning, through changes in phytoplankton productivity and community composition. We demonstrated previously that goose faeces can enrich ponds with nutrients at a landscape scale. Here, we show experimentally that goose droppings rapidly released nitrogen and phosphorus when submerged in freshwater, increasing the dissolved nitrogen and phosphorus in the water. This resulted in both a decrease in the nitrogen:phosphorus ratio and an increase in cyanobacteria in the goose dropping treatment. In contrast, this pattern was not found when we submerged cut sedge (Carex sp.) leaves. These results demonstrate that geese act as biovectors, causing terrestrial nutrients to be bioavailable in freshwater systems. Collectively, the results demonstrate the direct ecological consequences of ornithological nutrient loading from hyperabundant geese in Arctic freshwater ecosystems.

Uqsuqtuurmiut inuita tuktumi qaujimaningit(Inuit knowledge of caribou from Gjoa Haven, Nunavut): Collaborative research contributions to co-management efforts

Polar Record ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gita Ljubicic ◽  
Simon Okpakok ◽  
Sean Robertson ◽  
Rebecca Mearns
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Cross Cultural Research ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
Inuit Knowledge ◽  
The Government

AbstractCaribou (tuktuit) are embedded in northern life, and have been part of Inuit culture and seasonal rounds for generations. InInuit Nunangat(Inuit homelands),tuktuitare the most prevalent of country foods consumed, and remain interconnected with Inuit values, beliefs and practices. Despite co-management mandates to consider Inuit and scientific knowledge equally, the intertwined colonial legacies of research and wildlife management render this challenging. In Uqsuqtuuq (Gjoa Haven, Nunavut), community members identified the importance of documenting Inuit knowledge in order to be taken more seriously by researchers and government managers. To address this priority we worked with Uqsuqtuurmiut (people of Uqsuqtuuq) to articulate which types oftuktuitare found on or near Qikiqtaq (King William Island), provide a historical perspective oftuktuitpresence/absence in the region, and describe seasonal movements oftuktuiton and off the island. In reflecting on potential intersections of our work with the Government of Nunavut strategy “Working Together for Caribou”, we identify several considerations in support ofQanuqtuurniq(information and knowledge acquisition): defining information needs, recognising and valuing Inuit knowledge, and developing and implementing credible research. By sharing lessons from our collaborative process we aim to contribute to broader cross-cultural research and co-management efforts in Nunavut.

Achieving practical outcomes from genetic studies of rare Australian plants

2000 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Hogbin ◽  
Rod Peakall ◽  
Marita A. Sydes
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Study ◽  
Genetic Research ◽  
Rare Plants ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Genetic Studies ◽  
Conservation Implications ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Management Recommendations

An increasing number of genetic studies of rare plants are motivated by the potential contribution they can make to the conservation of the species concerned. However, while these studies frequently identify conservation implications, few have demonstrated practical conservation outcomes. In this paper, we criticallyevaluate the practical outcomes of our genetic study of three endangered plant species: Haloragodendron lucasii, Zieria prostrata and Wollemia nobilis. Each genetic study provided a number of conservation implications or management recommendations for the species concerned. However, for three reasons, not all of the implications actually led to practical outcomes. First, similar recommendations were already in place. Second, management recommendations, while sound, were not relevant to the current management priorities. Third, irrespective of the genetic outcome, a given recommendation prevailed as the preferred management option. In order to achieve effective and cost-efficient recovery of threatened flora, we need to identify those cases where genetic studies are likely to produce practical outcomes for conservation management. This may best be achieved by first, assessing and critically evaluating the outcomes of genetic research already conducted, and second, evaluating the potential for practical outcomes of future research by considering the range of possible outcomes in the context of the management options available for the species.

Defining children's needs in out-of-home care: Methods and challenges of a collaborative research project

2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Mason ◽  
Robert Urquhart ◽  
Natalie Bolzan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Relational Structures ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Outcomes Of Care ◽  
Participatory Research Methods

The ‘future’ orientation of the out-of-home care research literature which has focused on outcomes of care has risked ignoring children's experiences of care in their ‘present(s)’. In this paper we describe a project, the design of which reflects an alternative to the traditional way of looking at childhood, of which this ‘future’ (adult constructed) orientation is part. We discuss the use of qualitative research methods to identify children's needs in care. The project has attempted to involve children as co-constructors of knowledge around their needs through participatory research methods. These methods have required us to recognise that children and their needs exist within a context of relational structures; to address the power imbalances between adult researchers and child participants; and to be flexible in responding to the consequences of a participative process. Challenges which have surfaced in the implementation of this research and our responses to them are described.

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