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How one Canadian scientist is tapping into the knowledge of Indigenous communities

Brian Owens · April 25, 2019 ·

Jean Polfus found her research was strengthened by bringing more voices to the table.

Jean Polfus, a postdoctoral fellow at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada, studies the distribution and spatial organization of caribou (or reindeer; Rangifer tarandus) populations in the Sahtú region of the Northwest Territories. She explains how she collaborates with members of the Dene Indigenous community, and how their insights benefit her research. Read more in Nature.

Nature Arctic, caribou, conservation, genetics, Indigenous

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