Community-based monitoring pilot project to monitor health of the marine ecosystem, Pond Inlet, Nunavut

The project provided community training and financial support to set up and run a year-long pilot initiative to monitor the health of the marine ecosystem around the community of Pond Inlet, as it relates to Inuit activities. This will incorporate local knowledge and the daily activities of community hunters to produce an overview of Inuit harvesting or land use patterns, marine species activities and areas of ecological or traditional importance. In addition to establishing specific ecological or social baselines another key aim is to optimise the methodology of the project template itself, creating template that can be readily transposed to other arctic communities to produce a regional monitoring network.