Honoring Ancient Relationships For Climate Solutions

The land-sea connections that flow from lakes and rivers into our oceans are the life breath of our subsistence-based coastal communities. When we care for the land, air and sea, then we are cared for, as we too are part of the intrinsic land-sea connections on our precious Blue Planet.

The respect and understanding that watersheds are one contiguous ecosystem is integral to our way of life, as it has been for millennia. The land-sea connection must be preserved, protected and restored to maintain the life-giving balance that our ancestors lived by – and as we must still live by today – to survive and thrive into the future.