Letters Debate Conservation and Indigenous Land Acknowledgement

community · July 2020 · British Columbia

Letters to the editor discuss conservation approaches for local species and critique the practice of indigenous land acknowledgements as tokenism, proposing a provincial name change to better reflect indigenous history.

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Sources

• “To the Taylor’s Checkerspot Recovery Implementation Group... conservation means non-interference... Ben Pires writes about indigenous land acknowledgements and calls for a provincial name change.” — The Islands Grapevine – July 16th, 2020 (July 16th, 2020)

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