Society

Ancestral legacy of nature’s connections – Teresa Ryan at TEDxBerkeley

By Teresa Ryan, originally published by TEDx Berkeley

February 28, 2018

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Dr. Teresa Ryan draws from her ancestral Tsimtian heritage and her work as a fisheries scientist and natural resource conservation expert. Motivated by the way her forefathers interacted with the environment, Dr. Ryan demonstrates how the synergistic Aboriginal knowledge of cyclic resource production and variability can help promote the sustainable use of fishing resources today.

Video reposted from TEDxBerkeley under a (CC BY–NC–ND) license.

Teresa Ryan

Dr. Teresa Ryan (Sm’hayetsk) is a Tsimshian scientist, Indigenous knowledge practitioner, and fisheries/aquatic ecologist whose work bridges Indigenous knowledge systems and Western science to advance forest and watershed stewardship. A lecturer in the Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship at the University of British Columbia, she teaches courses on complex adaptive systems, ecological sustainability, and Indigenous forest and fisheries stewardship.

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