Press Release: Citizen science and community-based monitoring are being highlighted by Indigenous leaders, and researchers this week at the 18th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York.

• Tracking Change: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance -- Global Knowledge Symposium UN New York 2019

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Howlett, Tracy; Parlee, Brenda

• Community researchers from more than 40 communities participating in the Tracking Change project have been documenting changes in the sustainability of the Mackenzie, Mekong and Amazon river basins since 2016 and are now working together to ensure this knowledge is recognized more globally. The work is being led out of the University of Alberta, in partnership with multiple governments universities and 40 Indigenous partner organizations, communities and governments from the Mackenzie River Basin.

• Date created

  2019-02-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • citizen science, communit-based research, local and traditional knowledge, environmental monitoring, knowledge sharing
  • Mackenzie River Basin, Canada; Lower Mekong River Basin, Thailand; Lower Amazon River Basin, Brazil

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Presentation

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-yckx-3273

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International