Indigenous Engagement

Joro Consultants has collaborated with many Indigenous communities in Manitoba and Nunavut, on wildlife & land use planning, traditional knowledge workshops, and involvement of elders, youth & other local community participants.

Examples of projects & Indigenous communities we have worked with:

Kivalliq Hydro Fibre Link (KHFL) Project for Nukik Corporation 

o Working with local participants from the communities listed below to provide field crew support & safety for various aerial wildlife & plant surveys and trail camera deployment & maintenance for the KHFL

o Providing Hunter Trapper Organization (HTO) support for KHFL community engagement workshops

o The above work was completed in each of the following communities:

  • Rankin Inlet

  • Arviat

  • Chesterfield Inlet

  • Whale Cove

  • Baker Lake

  • Town of Churchill

  • Fox Lake Cree Nation

Trapper Program (TP) for the East Side Road Authority

o Local community trappers were hired from each of the following communities to participate in a TP collecting detailed furbearer information as part of an All Season-Road Development Project:

  • Berens River First Nation

  • Bloodvein First Nation

  • Bunibonibee (Oxford House) Cree Nation

  • Garden Hill First Nation

  • Gods Lake First Nation

  • Hollow Water First Nation

  • Little Grand Rapids First Nation

  • Manto Sipi (God’s River) Cree Nation

  • Pauingassi First Nation

  • Poplar River First Nation

  • Red Sucker Lake First Nation

  • St. Theresa Point First Nation

  • Wasagamack First Nation

Forest Management Plan Review

o Assisting Peguis First Nation on review of a provincial forest management plan and activities in Southeast Manitoba

The Effects of Climate Change (CC) on Wildlife Presentation

o Presenting to Black River First Nation on CC effects on wildlife and hosting a trail camera deployment and track & sign survey methods workshop with community members

Wildlife Habitat Modeling Demonstration

o Presenting to various First Nations and modeling species of interest habitat within their traditional territories

Moose Management Committee

o Doug Schindler (1991 to mid-2000s), Committee Chairman, worked with First Nation communities in eastern Manitoba on behalf of the Manitoba Model Forest