For weeks, the B.C. Supreme Court has been hearing arguments by the Nuchatlaht First Nation and province about who has the right to 20,000 hectares of Nootka Island.
Climate change impacts tribal nations and other people of color more than other communities, leaving them to face “systemic inequalities” without having a voice in discussions at the state and federal level.
A pilot project to incentivize landowners to rewild their properties and take up alternative livelihoods shows that landowners could earn 50 times more per hectare cultivating guanabana, a local fruit, than raising cattle.
