Place · Relationship · Knowledge · Restoration · Stewardship
We treat restoration as a relationship with a place, not only a technical intervention. Each project considers territory, governance, knowledge, ecological repair and long-term stewardship from the beginning.
Ways of knowing in practice
Project decisions can draw on Western ecological science and, where a Nation or knowledge holders choose to share it, Indigenous knowledge. One does not exist to validate the other. Each contributes different strengths, responsibilities and understandings.
Our approach is informed by Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing), a Mi’kmaw guiding principle articulated by Elder Albert Marshall. Because TILT may work across many Nations, every project must still follow the laws, protocols, governance and knowledge-sharing expectations of the Nation involved.
Where shared and authorized, knowledge may carry long histories of observation, relationships, responsibilities, language and understandings of place. Nations and knowledge holders determine what can be used, stored or made public.
Field surveys, monitoring, modelling and experimental methods can help describe ecological condition, test restoration actions and measure change through time.
A project may be informed by knowledge that is never published. Transparency about TILT’s decisions does not create a right to disclose Indigenous knowledge, cultural information, sensitive locations or community data.
Project reporting
As TILT projects are formally established, their profiles will show how the place is understood, whose territory it is within, how relationships are structured, what knowledge may guide the work, what restoration is undertaken and what long-term future is being pursued.
Ecology, history, setting and why the place matters.
The Indigenous Nation or Nations connected to the territory, participating partners and governance arrangements.
Scientific evidence and any Indigenous knowledge that is shared and authorized to inform the work.
The ecological repair, rehabilitation or conservation action being undertaken.
Monitoring, maintenance, responsibilities and care during and after restoration.
The intended stewardship, transfer or other enduring outcome, where it is appropriate and agreed.
How project pages will read
Administrative geography still matters, but it will not be the first or only way a project is located. Nation and territory wording will be developed with the relevant Nation rather than assumed by TILT.
Project name, Nation or Nations, territory wording where agreed, ecological setting and administrative location.
How the Nation, community, landholder and other partners are involved in governance and stewardship.
What scientific methods are being used and what Indigenous knowledge may be acknowledged or shared under agreed permissions.
The ecological condition, restoration objectives, interventions, timeline and monitoring approach.
Who is caring for the place during restoration, what responsibilities continue afterward and how governance may evolve.
Public monitoring results, publications and learning products, while respecting knowledge, privacy and data-governance agreements.
Indigenous knowledge, cultural information, sensitive locations and community data may inform decisions without being published. A project’s transparency obligations do not override the permissions, protocols or confidentiality agreed with Nations and knowledge holders.
Project navigation
Rural, Urban and the tags below help visitors navigate the website. They do not replace the territory, relationships or Nation-specific context of an individual project.
Rural Projects
Rural work can include degraded lands, habitats, wetlands, shorelines and watersheds. The restoration pathway will be developed in relationship with the Indigenous Nation or Nations connected to each project territory where they choose to participate.
Habitat rehabilitation, biodiversity recovery, water and shoreline restoration, invasive-species management, native planting and monitoring, shaped by the knowledge and governance appropriate to the place.
Care, monitoring and governance arrangements intended to endure beyond the restoration phase, including transfer pathways where agreed and legally possible.
Urban Projects
Urban places are also within Indigenous territories. Projects can include vacant or underused land, habitat, heritage places, community spaces and buildings, with territorial relationships considered alongside ecological, educational and public-benefit goals.
Buildings can be restored, conserved or adapted to support educational programming, charitable activities, community use and place-based stewardship.
Vacant or degraded urban land can be restored for biodiversity, ecological function, learning and long-term community or Indigenous stewardship.
Education & Learning
Restoration sites can support research, field learning and public education. Indigenous knowledge is not automatically a public educational resource; what can be shared is determined through the permissions and protocols of the Nation and knowledge holders involved.
Project inquiries
We welcome conversations with Indigenous Nations, communities, landholders, researchers and other partners about degraded sites and long-term stewardship.
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