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)
Story: Partners in Protection? The Path to Indigenous Co-Management in the Northern Shelf
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
IndigiNews
Project: Indigenous Water Stories, Year Two
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: The Mushkegowuk NMCA