Guardians of Edehzhie: Protecting the land during the pandemic
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Guardians of the Edehzhie protected area in the Northwest Territories are trained in the use of wildlife cameras as seen in this handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Indigenous Leadership Initiative MANDATORY CREDIT
There was a time last year when the guardians of Edehzhie would head out on the land in the Northwest Territories and worry what their communities might look like when they returned.
That was when COVID-19 started to sweep across Canada, threatening the country’s northern communities, including those around the protected area known as Edehzhie in the Dehcho region of the N.W.T.