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Native Women’s Essential Role in the Environment The Native Women’s Association of Canada, as a national voice for Aboriginal women to collectively enhance, promote, and foster the social, economic, cultural and political well-being of Aboriginal women includes our role as care takers of the land. In this regard, our organization strives to ensure Aboriginal women have a voice and retain our rightful role and representation as, authorities on land use, management and ownership. We are leaders within our own right and capable of advancing our interests that are often intertwined with, education, health, and the environment. NWAC’s President, Beverley Jacobs, is the Chair of the National Aboriginal Council on Species at Risk (NACOSAR). Through this Council, NWAC has had the opportunity to advise the Minister of Environment on the administration of the act and to provide advice and recommendations to Canadian Endangered Species Conservation Council. Our participation as a recognized member of this Council offers NWAC an unprecedented opportunity to contribute to virtually every facet of the Species at Risk Act. It gives voice to Aboriginal women who as holders of Aboriginal traditional knowledge are able to contribute to listing, policy, and decision-making processes that effect species and their critical habitat. In many cases, scientific authorities are learning that Aboriginal traditional knowledge is an advanced tool for examining variables related to species at risk in this country, and NWAC is very pleased to have contributed to this realization.
NACOSAR Speeches
President Jacobs at Traditional Knowledge and Native Women Workshop, NACOSAR |
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