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In 2018, The Wyss Foundation made a three year, $750,000 commitment to help the Dehcho First Nation in Canada’s Northwest Territories establish an Indigenous guardians program to conduct on-the-ground co-management of the proposed 3.5 million acre Edéhzhíe National Wildlife Area. The Decho have already declared the are area an Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area and is eager to see the federal government complete protection of the area as a National Wildlife Area as soon as possible. Learn More