TODAY Coastal Guardian Watchmen film with Christina...

TODAY • Coastal Guardian Watchmen film with Christina Service (to start) • My lecture - Monitoring and Enforcement cont’d

MONDAY Last readings!: Gunn 2001; Darimont 2012; (deLeeuw 2007 Exec Summ)

Mooers et al. 2007

SARA – 2 stage process: 1) COSEWIC status given to government by scientists 2) government accepts/rejects suggested listing (politics can trump science)

Overarching limits to enforcement and monitoring - biases under SARA

Why? 1.

2.

1. NGOs e.g. Raincoast monitors for poaching, other infractions

SOLUTIONS TO MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT PROBLEMS

e.g. Raincoast Salmon monitoring 121 ‘new’ salmon & trout occurences

Temple 2007

Roles: • eyes and ears on the lands and waters (laws and land use plans) • monitoring Ecosystem-based Management (EBM) as (& if) it is applied • protecting cultural and ecological resources – Indigenous Law Enforcement

2. Indigenous Eyes on the Coast e.g., Coastal Guardian Watchmen Network (2005-)

•Northwest Community College program (Prince Rupert)

e.g. Coastal First Nations Stewards and Monitoring Teams, like CoastWatch

CoastWatch Grizzly Project Video

Housty, et al In press. Grizzly bear monitoring by the Heiltsuk people as a scientific crucible for First Nations conservation practice. Ecology & Society