IWI SUPPORTED PROJECTS
The Indigenous Watersheds Initiative is funding 49 Indigenous-led projects dedicated to the stewardship and restoration of local watersheds in ‘British Columbia’. The projects receiving funding are found in communities across the province, spanning the Mackenzie, Fraser, Columbia, North Coast, South Coast, Nass, Skeena, Stikine, Taku, and Yukon watershed basins.
IWI projects encompass a wide range of focus areas and themes, including:
Indigenous Knowledge and Land-based Learning
Watershed Planning and Governance
Fisheries and Food Sovereignty
Watershed Restoration and Protection
Watershed Monitoring and Assessment.
To visually explore IWI program reach, simply click on the interactive map to the right. You can also view the complete list of projects as a PDF table or Airtable.
Indigenous-led Watershed Restoration in the Upper Pitt Watershed
Katzie First Nation in Partnership with WWF-Canada
Indigenous-led Endako Weir Effectiveness Monitoring Program
Upper Fraser Fisheries Conservation Alliance
Indigenous-led water quality and quantity monitoring in the Nechako Watershed
Upper Fraser Fisheries Conservation Alliance (UFFCA)
Tsilhqot'in-led water quality and water and fish habitat monitoring program
Tsilhqot'in National Government
kɬúsx̌nítkw (Okanagan Lake) Responsibility Planning Initiative (OKLRPI)
Okanagan Nation Alliance
Chilako River Corridor and Headwater Restoration Demonstration
Lheidli T'enneh First Nation
Xetthecum Eco-cultural Mapping Project Phase III
Institute for Multidisciplinary Ecological Research in the Salish Sea (IMERSS)
Gitanyow Salmon Habitat Restoration and Salmon Enumeration Planning
Gitanyow Huwilp Society