Canadian Mountain Network (CMN) Co-Research Director, Norma Kassi, has been awarded the prestigious 2020 Arctic Inspiration Prize (AIP) for her project in Northern Canada, which will train Indigenous youth in Indigenous-led conservation and stewardship....
Launched in 2019 with the support of the Networks of Centres of Excellence program and other partners, the Canadian Mountain Network (CMN) is Canada’s first formal research organization dedicated to advancing our understanding of...
Mountains are defined by their diversity of life forms, geography, peoples and livelihoods. Mountains are part of diverse cultures and spiritual beliefs and practices, and serve as inspiration for art, music and storytelling. December...
As the holiday season is approaching, and our mountains are dusted with snow, it is the perfect time to celebrate International Mountain Day (IMD). Each year, we plan the festivities, including exciting activities, campaigns...
Reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples requires an open and honest conversation to understand our diverse histories and experiences. Only through this process of reconciliation will we be able to address the urgent environmental...
Caribou conservation is one of Canada’s most important ecological challenges. For millennia, many Indigenous Peoples lived alongside and relied upon caribou, a species of great cultural and ecological importance. Unfortunately, caribou populations have severely...
While tourists and outdoor enthusiasts were unable to partake in their favorite mountain activities during the COVID-19 shutdown, the pause has also affected the tourism-based economies of mountain destinations. Now that some tourism destinations...
In the past, researchers would take helicopters to Indigenous communities, extract the information they needed and leave, often exploiting the community in the process. In recent years, there has been a strong movement of...
Climate change is expected to significantly disrupt ecological communities. Climate change directly affects species by altering their habitat. However, indirect effects of climate change on species interactions, such as predation and competition, may have...
What happens when human activities conflict with wildlife and vice-versa? How do we share increasingly populated mountain spaces with the natural world? This Canadian Mountain Podcast episode focuses on human-wildlife co-existence and features experienced...
D'après une nouvelle étude publié dans @ScienceMagazine, les #montagnes terrestres ont mystérieusement cessé de croître pendant un milliard d'années : https://www.nationalgeographic.fr/sciences/geologie-les-montagnes-ont-mysterieusement-cesse-de-croitre-pendant-un-milliard-annees
#RechercheMontagnes #Recherche #Science @NatGeo
This new study in @ScienceMagazine shows that #mountain building has not always been as active as it is today or as it was early in Earth's history:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6530/728
#MountainSystems #MountainResearch #Sience
Cette étude sur les bois de #caribous rejetés au cours des dernières décennies - et, dans certains cas, des siècles - démontre une fidélité de longue date du troupeau de caribous « Porcupine » à la plaine côtière comme site de vêlage (en anglais): https://www.arctictoday.com/what-old-caribou-antlers-in-alaskas-arctic-refuge-can-tell-researchers-about-historic-migrations/
Read this new #article about the study of #caribou antlers discarded over past decades — and, in some cases, centuries — shows a longstanding fidelity among the Porcupine Caribou Herd to the coastal plain as a calving site: https://www.arctictoday.com/what-old-caribou-antlers-in-alaskas-arctic-refuge-can-tell-researchers-about-historic-migrations/ #Ecology #IndigenousPeoples
Plus de 200 #chercheurs de partout au pays ont signé une lettre ouverte demandant plus de contributions #autochtones à l'initiative « Navigating the New Arctic », qui étudie les effets du changement climatique sur les #communautés #arctiques : https://www.alaskapublic.org/2021/02/05/researchers-ask-for-more-indigenous-input-in-national-arctic-science-initiative/
