Eskasoni Fish and Wildlife Commission
Eskasoni Fish & Wildlife Commission (EFWC) has a mission to protect the environment and the habitat necessary for our aquatic and land-based animals to live and flourish. Their organization has been involved in Atlantic salmon conservation projects since the early 1990’s.
Kieran Johnson
From Eskasoni First Nation, in Unama'ki, Cape Breton, Kieran is a Species-At-Risk Mapping Coordinator for Eskasoni Fish and Wildlife Commission. She attended Nova Scotia Community College for Natural Resources. Her position at Eskasoni Fish and Wildlife Commission is working as a species at risk mapping coordinator, which involves doing community interviews and research on species at risk.
“Just start small, just do your one thing, just do what you can. If you don't, it's easy to kind of get weighed down by everything and just hearing all the things that are happening around the world. Sometimes it's really discouraging, and it makes you feel like you want to give up. But just do that one thing, just change one thing and don't settle for anything, either.”
- Kieran Johnson, EFWC from Karli Zschögner's interview
Working Together
Eskasoni Fish and Wildlife Commission works with other environmental organizations in Nova Scotia to organize shoreline cleanups and gather data on the collected trash. A cleanup of Eskansoni’s Mountain Road was done with EFWC and the Red Road Project, Cape Breton Environmental Association, and ACAP Trashformers. The event was a success with a total of 5000lbs of trash collected by the end of the day!
Video Resources
“While the term IPCA may be new, Mi’kmaq caring for the land is not. Lisa Young, (Executive Director of Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources) and Tom Johnson (Executive Director of Eskasoni Fish and Wildlife Commission ) provide an overview of the important events that have led up to and continue to support the concept of IPCAs.”
“In our last session, we learned about different Mi’kmaw guiding principles that help to shape Mi’kmaw-led conservation. This week, we were lucky enough to be joined by Clifford Paul (Moose Management Coordinator with UINR) as he talked more about these Mi’kmaw guiding principles in practice. More specifically, Clifford spoke about Etuaptmunk (two-eyed seeing) and moose management here in Nova Scotia.”
