Join us to kick off the 2022-23 Bow Valley Naturalist Speaker Series on Tuesday October 25th at 7:30pm at the Banff Seniors Centre.
For thousands of years, humans have depended on and learned from the natural world around them. In this presentation, Mateen will share his research and lived-experience about the role of humans in mediating and restoring animal food-webs. Mateen will discuss his graduate research on moose harvest to promote endangered caribou recovery, his current work with First Nations communities in British Columbia to protect caribou habitat, his research on “Indigenizing the North American model of Wildlife Conservation,” and a vision for reconciliation and the conservation of nature in Canada.
Mateen A. Hessami, MSc, Wyandotte Nation
Mateen is a community-based wildlife ecologist working with Biodiversity Pathways, a science institute focused on providing high-quality information sourced from multiple knowledge-systems to inform decision making for wildlife populations across Western Canada. Mateen is a proud citizen of the Wyandotte Nation, Canada, and the United States — and leverages his diverse cultural background to promote change in the way wildlife are managed and conserved. Mateen has worked on a suite of large mammals in the Rocky Mountain West including elk, bison, wolves, mule deer, moose, and caribou. When not wildlife’n or hunting, Mateen enjoys playing and refereeing hockey as well as cooking delicious wild game meals for his friends and family.
