The Yukon, Food Security, & the South Beringia Priority Place

The Environment in Canada Podcast

We discuss food security lessons from personal experiences in the Yukon and, on an unrelated note, share the audio version of our past webinar with the Yukon Conservation Society on their Yukon South Beringia Priority Place initiative. The Priority Place spans 89,000 square kilometers between the Ogilvie Mountains to the north and Dezadeash Lake and Carcross to the south. Because it was never (or only occasionally) glaciated during the ice ages, it is home to some of the oldest landscapes in Canada and contains a variety of unique and endemic species, some of which are found nowhere else on Earth.
For anyone concerned about how climate change will impact our ability to feed ourselves we share some advice on how to make our food systems more resilient in the second half of today's episode. Please note that the views in the second half of the podcast are on behalf of ourselves and not our guests.
Watch our full joint webinar in video, Conserving the Last Canadian Home of the Mammoth, with the YCS here: https://www.sierraclub.ca/action-item/conserving-the-last-canadian-home-of-the-mammoth/
Find out more about the Yukon Conservation Society (YCS): https://www.yukonconservation.ca/
Find out more about the South Beringia Priority Place initiative: https://www.yukonsouthberingia.ca/
Find out more about food security in the Yukon via The Food Bank Society of the Yukon: http://www.whitehorsefoodbank.ca/
Find out more about collective gardening in Montréal in our previous podcast episode here: https://www.sierraclub.ca/urban-agriculture-collective-gardens/
Find out more about renewable energy in our other previous episode here: https://www.sierraclub.ca/renewable-energy-grid-alberta/
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