Abstract Strategies to reduce, halt, and reverse global declines in marine biodiversity are needed urgently. We reviewed, coded, and synthesized historical and contemporary marine conservation strategies of the Kitasoo/Xai'xais First Nation in British Columbia, Canada to show how their approaches work. We assessed whether the conservation actions classification system by the Conservation Measures Partnership was able to encompass this nation's conservation approaches. All first‐order conservation actions aligned with the Kitasoo/Xai'xais First Nation's historical and contemporary marine conservation actions; hereditary chief management responsibility played a key role. A conservation ethic permeates Kitasoo/Xai'xais culture, and indigenous resource management and conservation existed historically and remains strong despite extreme efforts by colonizers to suppress all indigenous practices. The Kitasoo/Xai'xais's embodiment of conservation actions as part of their worldview, rather than as requiring actions separate from everyday life (the norm in nonindigenous cultures), was missing from the conservation action classification system. The Kitasoo/Xai'xais are one of many indigenous peoples working to revitalize their governance and management authorities. With the Canadian government's declared willingness to work toward reconciliation, there is an opportunity to enable First Nations to lead on marine and other conservation efforts. Global conservation efforts would also benefit from enhanced support for indigenous conservation approaches, including expanding the conservation actions classification to encompass a new category of conservation or sacredness ethic.

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北太平洋历史和当代土著海洋保护战略

摘要 迫切需要减少、阻止和扭转全球海洋生物多样性下降的战略。我们审查、编码和综合了加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省 Kitasoo/Xai'xais 原住民的历史和当代海洋保护战略，以展示他们的方法是如何运作的。我们评估了保护措施伙伴关系的保护行动分类系统是否能够涵盖这个国家的保护方法。所有与 Kitasoo/Xai'xais First Nation 历史和当代海洋保护行动相一致的一级保护行动；世袭的首席管理责任发挥了关键作用。保护伦理渗透到 Kitasoo/Xai'xais 文化中，尽管殖民者极力压制所有土著习俗，土著资源管理和保护在历史上就存在并且仍然很强大。Kitasoo/Xai'xais 将保护行动作为他们世界观的一部分的体现，而不是要求与日常生活分开的行动（非土著文化中的规范），保护行动分类系统中没有。Kitasoo/Xai'xais 是众多致力于振兴其治理和管理当局的土著民族之一。随着加拿大政府宣布愿意努力实现和解，原住民有机会领导海洋和其他保护工作。全球保护工作也将受益于对本土保护方法的加强支持，