Although most Landscape Conservation Cooperatives ended when President Trump stopped their funding, the Northwest Boreal Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NBLCC) seems to still be in business with other funding for an "international landscape" that stretches from the Yukon into Alaska. Many environmental non-governmental organizations regrouped under the Network for Landscape Conservation (NLC). Having gathered up money from foundations, it appears the NLC is spreading some of that money into the Yukon.
With $25,000 over a period of two years, the money will be used to "catalyze an effort to build meaningful engagement with Alaska Native Tribes and Canada’s First Nations...launch an Indigenous Leadership Working Group...and...pursue proactive engagement strategies". Investments are intended to create "a co-leadership model with Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners to address pressing environmental and social needs and secure a healthy, intact, and resilient Northwest Boreal landscape." The NLC is using this money to buy First Nations for their large landscape agenda that eliminates sovereignty. In British Columbia they are using money to end economic activity that supports the community. None of this is consistent with what First Nations want. "Dozens of Indigenous groups are turning forcefully against the anti-pipeline agenda of Greenpeace and other U.S.-funded green and social justice groups." This was reiterated by Eagle Spirit chairman Calvin Helin, “First Nations are completely opposed to government policy being made by foreigners when it impacts their ability to help out their own people”. So NLC, keep your foundation money out of Canada with your goals of destroying the economy of the First Nations, defining what you think their culture should be, and redefining sovereign boundaries. It isn't wanted or needed as they are capable of determining their own future.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |