Spiritual Ecology Research

Seeking to reveal how spiritual relationship with place nurtures compassion for wildlife and motivates durable stewardship.

Our Goal

A compelling public story that makes people feel the kinship between cultural continuity and thriving wildlife, and realigns modern policy with Indigenous stewardship to heal a root cause, not a symptom.

Group of bison and calves walking in a grassy field with low shrubs and hills in the background.

This project is embedded in prior & informed consent, data sovereignty, fair compensation for knowledge holders, co-authorship & co-ownership, and respect for native and cultural land.

This project seeks to illuminate, and ultimately influence and realign, the structural mismatches between Indigenous wildlife stewardship systems and modern conservation governance. 

Contemporary wildlife policies frequently diverge from the land-based, relational, and ecologically sustainable cultural frameworks that once maintained balanced ecosystems for generations.

The long-term aim is not simply to illuminate misalignment, but to help shift, influence, and realign wildlife governance so that Indigenous stewardship principles guide policy, justice, and ecological restoration.