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Awareness raising and capacity building: Capacity was built and awareness increased of
climate change risks and vulnerabilities by involving community members in the
supervision of the project (through the steering committee), engaging the school and hiring
of several community members to lead part of the research and consultation.
3. BACKGROUND
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3.1. Description of the Xeni Gwet’in Caretaker Area
The Xeni Gwet’in Caretaker Area (XGCA) ‐ also referred to as the Chilko River Watershed
Area by some10 ‐ is the traditional Tsilhqot’in territory of the Xeni Gwet’in First Nation
(hereafter referred to as XGCA). It encompasses a relatively isolated and underdeveloped
part of the Chilko Forest Region in British Columbia, and is located 160 km by air or 250 km
by road southwest of Williams Lake. The area can be described as the drainage of Chilko
Lake,
Chilko River, and includes the Taseko Lake and Taseko river system, along with the
Tsuniah,
Nemiah, and Elkin Valleys (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Map of Chilcotin
Source: Canadian Geographic
Comprehensive Development Plan (2009).
9 Ecolibrio (2009); The Xeni Gwet’in
10 See Hammond and others (2004).
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