Our project will support developing an understanding of carbon, biodiversity and other novel stewardship finance schemes, in order to help the Wabanaki Commission develop culturally relevant frameworks and data sovereignty tools.
Our program will establish a Tribally-led biodiversity crediting framework using eDNA tools to monitor and protect species across the Chugach region, aligning Indigenous values with emerging markets to support long-term stewardship, climate resilience, and sustainable Tribal economic opportunities.
WRTBI's Buffalo Biodiversity Crediting Program will support the planning and development of our bio crediting program, which will increase economic, environmental, and community health, along with diversifying our funding streams for the nonprofit.
Our project will support the development program capacity to monitor biodiversity and carbon hemiboreal forests in the 1836 Treaty Ceded Territory with a focus on Sault Tribe's Shingle Bay Preserve as a demonstration site
Our project will support the development of a new fund for land re-matriation that can be accessed by our Tribal Nation members to re-acquire and protect their ancestral lands.
Our project will support the planning and development of our land return biocultural crediting project. This project will create a pathway for tribes and ethical investors to partner in the return of Blackfeet lands for a sustainable effort at land, culture, language, and Bison rematriation.
To strengthen the Modoc Nation’s capacity to secure and leverage funding that protects, regenerates, and sustains our sacred homelands by integrating TEK and asserting sovereignty. This will enable us to heal and reconnect our people to ancestral lands for the well-being of future generations.
The purpose integrates TEK with science-based restoration and centers tribal perspectives and priorities to build Tr capacity to create and manage resilient habitats that support and protect significant natural and cultural resources of the White Salmon River through shared, place-based stewardship.
This project will prevent spoilage of frozen foods during power outages caused by extreme weather events, enable us to continue to care for livestock during power outages, increase energy efficiency, alleviate electricity costs, and replenish food processing supplies,