Impacts of reintroduced bison on first nations people in Yukon, Canada: Finding common ground through participatory research and social learning

• Published in: Conservation and Society
• Main Authors: Douglas A Clark, Linaya Workman, Thomas S Jung
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2016
• Subjects: Aishihik; wood bison; Bison bison athabascae; common interest; community-based participatory research; First Nations; qualitative analysis; socio-economic impact assessment; Yukon; Canada; Ecology; QH540-549.5; Wood Bison; Bison bison bison
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4103/0972-4923.182798; https://doaj.org/article/51963af4ae93416baf1e983bb94e464f

From 1988-1992 wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) were transplanted to the southwest Yukon, inadvertently creating concerns among local First Nations about their impacts on other wildlife, habitat, and their members' traditional livelihoods. To understand these concerns we conducted a particip...