By: Rowena Davis, Program Manager In late September, I was fortunate enough to be one of five travelers from Mountain Sentinels who attended the Canadian Mountain Network’s (CMN) Knowledge Sharing Summit in Parksville, British Columbia on the traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Snuneymuxw, Qualicum, and Snaw-Naw-As Nations. Over several days, Indigenous [...]
This month, we are sharing the words of Gùdia, a Lhu’ààn Mân Ku Dań Elder, as the community spotlight. Gùdia shares with us her Haa Shagoon, her wisdom, and her questions for mountain communities around the world. Previously, Mountain Sentinels was lucky to welcome Gùdia to the Moving Mountains Summit in 2022 and collaborate with [...]
“Mountains are our origins and mountains are our solutions,” declared Wu Zhimin, Director of the Forestry Division for FAO, at the beginning of the closing ceremonies of the UN International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development in his role as moderator. This idea carried on throughout the entire conversation from forestry, to conservation, to genetics. Dongyu [...]
By Annie Webb On December 9th, the Canadian Mountain Network (CMN) and Mountain Sentinels Alliance hosted the dialogue, Women Move Mountains, on United Nations International Mountain Day (IMD) 2022. Around the world, women play a key role in the stewardship, conservation, economic development, and management of mountains, including the keeping and sharing of traditional knowledge. IMD 2022 [...]
Are you interested in adaptations of agricultural practices in the mountains? Curious about the extremities of climate change impacting mountain communities' ways of life? Are you invested in the gaps of knowledge for mountain research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? Mountain Sentinel network partners AfriMont authored a paper that sparks exciting discourse on [...]
In an effort to attract new, young minds to the Mountain Sentinels network, we created the Early Career Mountain Sentinels group, which began as a brief cocktails and tapas event at Perth III this past October. If the venue was a bit small, and if the meatballs ran out far too soon, that is only [...]
Welcome to the Mountain Sentinels blog! We are excited to welcome participants to our first workshop on “Transdisciplinary Approaches to Mountain Sustainability”, held 30 June to 3 July in Serre Chevalier, France. Participants include researchers and stakeholders from mountain regions around the world. We are just starting to gather here today. Check in later for [...]