Candace Campo will share her work as an Indigenous tour guide, cultural ambassador and educator with the Pender Harbour Wildlife Society on Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. at the PHSS.
The presentation will explore perspectives on the land, animals, plants and our intricate relationship from an Indigenous perspective. It will include Indigenous stories and outline some current policies related to the protection of wildlife.
Campo – ancestral name xets’emits’a – is a member of the shíshálh community who started her company, Talaysay Tours, in 2002. Trained as an anthropologist and school teacher, Campo provides unique and authentic cultural experiences to students and visitors from all over the world. She teaches outdoor education, traditional Indigenous knowledge, history and Indigenous culture throughout Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.
Campo is also a volunteer with the Jane Goodall Institute, Canada Roots and Shoots, and travels to Uganda to support an Indigenous Youth Cohort representing JGI Canada and its mandate of protecting the environment through the people, environment and wildlife. She is a communications representative for Greenpeace and has participated in various campaigns to bring attention to the environmental concerns of fossil fuel extraction and its impacts.
In her work, Campo aspires to teach students and the community to understand the interconnection of people, animals and the land. “We are the land and the land is us.”
Campo with her husband Larry own and operate Talaysay Tours and Aboriginal Eco Tours. They live in the Squamish Nation community in West Vancouver and are the proud parents of two adult children, Talasay and Elias.
The society’s AGM will follow the presentation. This is a free, public event. Refreshments and raffle at the break. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
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