The Rainforest Solutions Project- Tides Canada Initiative
#MoveTheDate Solutions
Personal / Community: Community project
Nature sub-categories: Conservation, Wildlife, Ecosystem health
Description: BFI Award "The Rainforest Solutions Project" 2016: This project promotes conservation and economic alternatives in British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest. Maintain and iteratively improve the socially just, culturally and economically viable and ecologically precautionary Ecosystem Based Management Framework developed in the GBR as an on the ground large-scale transformational model. Share the model and learnings with participants in other global resource conflicts to seed and accelerate systemic transformation.
Website about this solution: http://www.savethegreatbear.ca/
Video about this solution: https://vimeo.com/274893971
Why I love this solution: The design element of this project is the method of principled, multilateral negotiations that respects and upholds indigenous rights; fosters partnerships between divergent economic, political, and ecological values; and embraces the scale and complexity at which all of these systems operate. The Rainforest Solutions Project also maps out the often unglamorous but so necessary measures of knowledge transfer, monitoring, and continued problem-solving required to sustain such an achievement. This is the design of a model for healthy interaction between human beings and Spaceship Earth involving larger, longer, and more complex interrelationships.