2024 Marine Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area Reporting Grants
In 2024, IJNR awarded a total of $95,800 (USD) in grants to three journalists and five news outlets to expand their reporting on marine Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas in Canada. The grants are intended to increase coverage and awareness of the growing momentum behind Indigenous-led conservation and resource management in the marine environment. Funding was provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Serena Renner (Hakai Magazine/bioGraphic Magazine)
Story: Welcome to the Great Bear Sea, bioGraphic
Jimmy Thomson (Freelance)
Story: Protecting Pikialasorsuaq, the North Water
Monica Kidd (Freelance)
Story: Coastal erosion in Canada's north
Ha-Shilth-Sa
Series: Restoring Nuu-chah-nulth Clam Gardens Series
Part 1: Dennis Hetu and the ancestral clam farm
Part 2: ‘I wish we had our territory back’: Influx of float homes in Clayoquot Sound forces Tla-o-qui-aht families to go farther for traditional foods
Part 3: Building the road to food sovereignty, rock wall by rock wall
IndigiNews
Project: Indigenous Water Stories, Year Two
Stories: With prayers and well wishes, students release thousands of salmon fry in Okanagan waters
‘Not our border’: How a colonial line shapes Tlingit lands — and my own ancestor’s role in it
Amidst the glaciers of Tlingit territories, women are ‘holding the embers’ of their language
Meet the hereditary chief who Amnesty International calls ‘Canada’s’ first prisoner of conscience
‘We are willing to fight. We are not scared’: A new resistance to LNG unfolds in northern ‘B.C.’
As winter looms, Gitxsan and Gitanyow pipeline resistance shows no sign of slowing
Canada’s National Observer
Series: Protecting The Nuheh Nene/Seal River Watershed from Industrialization
Part 1: Churchill at a Crossroads: looking forward from the past
Part 2: Churchill at a Crossroads: A traditional way of life clashes with ‘last chance tourism’
Part 3: Churchill at a Crossroads: The long road of integration between western science and local knowledge
The Tyee
Story: Meet the Musqueam Leaders Revitalizing Their Waterways: A Documentary
Canadian Geographic
Story: Inside the ambitious Indigenous-led plan to protect northwestern Ontario’s “Breathing Lands”