"It's truly tragic that this community finds itself in this situation",
stated JP Gladu, Senior Aboriginal Advisor for the Canadian Boreal Initiative.
"Until there is respect for consultation obligations and new policy to ensure
that exploration occurs only where Aboriginal communities desire it, conflicts
like this one are unavoidable. Governments need to act now to bring mineral
exploration and development regulation into accord with this new reality."
    The Boreal Conservation Framework, supported by over 170 corporations,
113 First Nations and many leading conservation groups, is a vision to protect
at least half of the Boreal in a network of large, interconnected protected
areas and support sustainable communities, world-leading ecosystem-based
resource management practices in the remaining landscapes. Part of this vision
is to ensure that land use planning precedes resource extraction in the Boreal
in areas such as the Boreal of Ontario.
    Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug is located approximately 600 km north of
Thunder Bay in Ontario. Its traditional territory covers approximately 2
million hectares (5 million acres) on intact forest and lakes and rivers in
the Boreal Forest of Ontario.
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