Nerdy About Nature - Podchat 13 | Indigenous Involvement in Outdoor Sports with Sandy Ward

Podchat 13 | Indigenous Involvement in Outdoor Sports with Sandy Ward

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01/29/23 • 67 min

Nerdy About Nature

A founding member of Indigenous Women Outdoors and coach with ILSA, Sandy Ward is an avid snowboarder, mountain biker and climber from the Lil'wat nation working to carve out a path for more Indigenous folks to get into the outdoors in a safe, welcoming space, and to see their ancestral lands from new a perspective through sport. Her and I sat down to talk about her journey in the outdoor sports world as a coach, athlete and mentor, how mindsets have shifted towards these recreational activities both within and outside of Indigenous communities, and other issues regarding working with Indigenous nations when it comes to building bike trails, skateparks and more.

Sandy is a really inspiring, awesome human, and you're gonna love to hear what she has to say!

For more on the work she's doing, you can check out:

Indigenous Women Outdoors: https://www.indigenouswomenoutdoors.ca/

Indigenous Life Sport Academy: https://www.lifesportcanada.org/

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Sandy is a really inspiring, awesome human, and you're gonna love to hear what she has to say!

For more on the work she's doing, you can check out:

Indigenous Women Outdoors: https://www.indigenouswomenoutdoors.ca/

Indigenous Life Sport Academy: https://www.lifesportcanada.org/

Nerdy About Nature is an independent passion project that relies on support from folks like you!

If you’re enjoying this podcast and videos, please don’t hesitate to support their production at my Patreon page for 1$ a month or more!

https://www.patreon.com/nerdyaboutnature You can also get NAN merch, stickers, resources and more information at www.NerdyAboutNature.com

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Podchat 12 | Wolf Conservation Ethics, Caribou and the Wolf Cull with Chelsea Greer

Chelsea Greer is the Wolf Conservation Program Director at Raincoast Conservation, and we sat down one Autumn morning in the woods to chat all about wolves! In this conversation, we delve into the concept of conservation ethics, different monitoring approaches, population dynamics, and their relationship with endangered mountain Caribou, as well as the history of wolves in Western Culture and how outdated misconceptions has lead to controversial Wolf culls throughout BC and beyond.

The takeaway - the big bad wolf you were taught to fear growing up was a flat-out lie. They're actually a lot nicer, kinder and cooler than how they're commonly portrayed, and their future may depend on us learning how to see them differently.

More on Raincoast Conservation's Wolf Program: https://www.raincoast.org/wolf-science/

Learn More about the Trophy Hunt: https://www.raincoast.org/trophy-hunt/

Instagram: @raincoastconservation

Twitter: @raincoast @chelgreer

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Podchat 14 | Where Endangered Species, Policy & Biodiversity Goals Converge in BC (oh, and glyphosate) with Charlotte Dawe

Charlotte Dawe is a campaigner with the Wilderness Committee who works on various issues regarding policy around biodiversity, at-risk & endangered species, old growth logging, glyphosate spraying, and many more. Her and I caught up to debrief on COP15, the United Nations Conference on Biological Diversity in Montreal, to hear all about the good, the bad and all the goss of this global shindig, and what it all means for BC, Canada and the world. We talk all about hurdles to protecting biodiversity, shotty old outdated legislation that stands in the way, crazy loopholes, big corporate interests lobbying for their own needs, policy failures and successes, glyphosate spraying and much much more.

Learn more about the Wilderness Committee at WildernessCommittee.org or @Wildernews

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