A factor that has long complicated the enactment of conservation policies in Canada is that First Nations harvesting data are often missing or incomplete. Consequently conservation policies are based on population estimates that First Nations often regard as excessively precautionary and economically, politically, and racially motivated. We present the results of a regional study documenting the extent to which First Nations households from 13 First Nations communities in the Peace River region of British Columbia and Alberta participate in subsistence moose (Alces alces) hunting. Since the 1990s, the moose population in the Peace River region has exhibited episodic decline. This is a particular concern to First Nations who depend on moose as their primary source of wild food and a critical component of their culture and identity. First Nations leaders are now calling upon provincial governments to engage with them directly in a form of collaborative conservation that can build trust, cross-cultural competencies, and the co-production of new knowledge that can inform conservation policies that protect rather than restrict First Nation subsistence rights.

长期以来，使加拿大制定保护政策复杂化的一个因素是，原住民的收割数据经常丢失或不完整。因此，保护​​政策基于人口估计数，原住民通常认为这是过度预防性的，是出于经济，政治和种族动机。我们介绍了一项区域研究的结果，该研究记录了不列颠哥伦比亚省和艾伯塔省和平河地区的13个原住民社区的原住民家庭在多大程度上参与了生存麋（Alces alces）狩猎。自1990年代以来，和平河地区的麋鹿数量呈周期性下降。对于原住民来说，这尤其令人担忧，原住民将驼鹿作为野生食物的主要来源，并且是其文化和特性的重要组成部分。原住民领袖现在呼吁各省政府以合作保护的形式直接与他们互动，这可以建立信任，跨文化能力，以及共同生产可以为保护而不是限制原住民的保护政策提供信息的新知识。生存权。